Tales of a Grandfather;: Being Stories Taken from Scottish History. Humbly Inscribed to Hugh Littlejohn, Esq. in Three Vols. .... Second series..Cadell and Company Edinburgh; Simpkin and Marshall, London; and John Cumming, Dublin., 1829 - Aristocracy (Social class) - 340 pages |
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... hundred , and to other recruits , the insurgent army might amount in all to fifteen hundred men , a sufficient number to have struck a severe blow before the royal forces could have assembled together , if the invaders could have ...
... hundred , and to other recruits , the insurgent army might amount in all to fifteen hundred men , a sufficient number to have struck a severe blow before the royal forces could have assembled together , if the invaders could have ...
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... rapidly executed , but the loss of time in debating the question was fatal . At length the Lowland expedition was deter- mined on ; and Argyle , with an army aug- mented to two thousand five hundred men , descended into EARL OF ARGYLE . 11.
... rapidly executed , but the loss of time in debating the question was fatal . At length the Lowland expedition was deter- mined on ; and Argyle , with an army aug- mented to two thousand five hundred men , descended into EARL OF ARGYLE . 11.
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... hundred men , descended into Lennox , proposing to cross the Clyde , and summon to arms the Cove- nanters of the west country . But the va- rious parties among the Presbyterians had already fallen into debates , whether or not they ...
... hundred men , descended into Lennox , proposing to cross the Clyde , and summon to arms the Cove- nanters of the west country . But the va- rious parties among the Presbyterians had already fallen into debates , whether or not they ...
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... hundred and sixty persons , of whom there were se- veral women , and even some children , reach- ed the place of their destination . This pro- ved to be the Castle of Dunottar , a strong fortress , almost surrounded by the German Ocean ...
... hundred and sixty persons , of whom there were se- veral women , and even some children , reach- ed the place of their destination . This pro- ved to be the Castle of Dunottar , a strong fortress , almost surrounded by the German Ocean ...
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... hundred sail . Conscious that he had lost the best safe- guard of a monarch , -namely , the love and affections of his subjects , this news came upon James like a thunder clap . He has- tened to retract all the measures which had ...
... hundred sail . Conscious that he had lost the best safe- guard of a monarch , -namely , the love and affections of his subjects , this news came upon James like a thunder clap . He has- tened to retract all the measures which had ...
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Page 316 - For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Page 218 - You are to have especial care that the old fox and his cubs do on no account escape your hands; you are to secure all the avenues, that no man escape. This you are to put in execution at...
Page 212 - As for Mac Ian of Glencoe and that tribe, if they can be well distinguished from the other Highlanders, it will be proper, for the vindication of public justice, to extirpate that set of thieves.
Page 157 - ... amongst cataracts and waterfalls which the eye can scarcely discern, while a series of precipices and wooded mountains rise on the other hand ; the road itself is the only mode of access through the glen, and along the valley which lies at its northern extremity. The path was then much more inaccessible than at the present day, as it ran close to the bed of the river, and was narrower and more rudely formed.
Page 225 - Thus ended this horrible deed of massacre. The number of persons murdered was thirty-eight ; those who escaped might amount to a hundred and fifty males, who, with the women and children of the...
Page 225 - Duncanson, agreeably to the plan .expressed in his orders to Glenlyon, had not failed to put himself in motion, with four hundred men, on the evening preceding the slaughter ; and had he reached the eastern passes out of Glencoe by four in the morning as he calculated, he must have intercepted and destroyed all those who took that only way of escape from Glenlyon and his followers. But as this reinforcement arrived so late as eleven in the forenoon, they found no MacDonald alive in Glencoe, save...
Page 263 - Nothing1 could be heard throughout Scotland but the language of grief and of resentment. Indemnification, redress, revenge, were demanded by every mouth, and each hand seemed ready to vouch for the justice of the claim. For many years, no such universal feeling had ' occupied the Scottish nation.
Page 163 - Observing the stand made by the two English regiments already mentioned, he galloped towards the clan of MacDonald, and was in the act of bringing them to the charge, with his right arm elevated, as if pointing the way to victory, when he was struck by a bullet beneath the armpit, where he was unprotected by his cuirass. He tried to ride on, but being unable to keep the saddle, fell mortally wounded, and died in the course of the night.
Page 222 - Reassured by this communication, the young men retired to rest, but were speedily awakened by an old domestic, who called on the two brothers to rise and fly for their lives. "Is it time for you...
Page 157 - ... with them. Nevertheless, Dundee resolved to preserve the castle of Blair, so important as a key to the Northern Highlands, and marched to protect it with a body of about two thousand Highlanders, with whom he occupied the upper and northern extremity of the pass between Dunkeld and Blair. In this celebrated defile, called the Pass of Killiecrankie, the road runs for several miles along the banks of a furious river, called the Garry, which...