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... thousand foot and horse ) compared to the strength of the Covenanters , Huntly determined to try and gain time by entering into negotiations with Montrose . Montrose's home was on the river Southesk , where Huntly's envoys found him ...
... thousand foot and horse ) compared to the strength of the Covenanters , Huntly determined to try and gain time by entering into negotiations with Montrose . Montrose's home was on the river Southesk , where Huntly's envoys found him ...
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... thousand men , returned to Aberdeen , charged to attack the loyal barons . He spared the town again , and endeavoured ( but ineffectually ) to besiege Sir George Gordon of Gight's house , but was thwarted in his design of taking it by ...
... thousand men , returned to Aberdeen , charged to attack the loyal barons . He spared the town again , and endeavoured ( but ineffectually ) to besiege Sir George Gordon of Gight's house , but was thwarted in his design of taking it by ...
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... thousand foot and two thousand horsemen strong towards the border , he still trusted in the advice of Hamilton , who kept assuring him that all was still peaceable and secure in the north . When we find ourselves betrayed , we turn to ...
... thousand foot and two thousand horsemen strong towards the border , he still trusted in the advice of Hamilton , who kept assuring him that all was still peaceable and secure in the north . When we find ourselves betrayed , we turn to ...
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... thousand men of Ulster ; but beyond that , and recommending him to the Marquis of Newcastle , then commanding the King's forces in Durham , he could do nothing for Montrose , not even by sending a handful of men with him to the border ...
... thousand men of Ulster ; but beyond that , and recommending him to the Marquis of Newcastle , then commanding the King's forces in Durham , he could do nothing for Montrose , not even by sending a handful of men with him to the border ...
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... thousand Irish on the coast of Argyll that lay nearest to Ireland . The first obstacle Montrose met with was a mutiny among his north country soldiers . This was insti- gated by a Sir Richard Graham ; and though the Scottish soldiers ...
... thousand Irish on the coast of Argyll that lay nearest to Ireland . The first obstacle Montrose met with was a mutiny among his north country soldiers . This was insti- gated by a Sir Richard Graham ; and though the Scottish soldiers ...
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