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    The Battle of Drumclog was fought on 1 June 1679, between a group of Covenanters and the forces of John Graham of Claverhouse, at Drumclog, in South Lanarkshire...
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    height of 196.7m and about 5 miles west of Strathaven. Drumclog is best known as the site of the 1679 Battle of Drumclog that took place on Drumclog Moss...
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  • suddenly in sight of the gathering. Sending away their women and children the covenanters drew up in battle array on the farm of Drumclog, a little to the...
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    Loudoun Hill, but his troops were routed by armed Covenanters at the Battle of Drumclog, and he was forced to flee to Glasgow. Following this initial success...
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    novel deals with the period of the Covenanters, featuring their victory at Loudoun Hill (also known as the Battle of Drumclog) and their defeat at Bothwell...
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    Loudoun Hill (category Mountains and hills of the Southern Uplands)
    the Battle of Drumclog, in which Claverhouse's dragoons were humiliatingly routed. The battle site lies around 1 km east of the hill. This battle formed...
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  • Drumclog is a hamlet in Scotland. Drumclog may also refer to: Drumclog Moss, bog Battle of Drumclog, battle fought at the Drumclog bog Drumclog railway...
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  • dragoons at the site in the 1679 Battle of Drumclog. The name Drumclog may have Brittonic origins. The first part of the name may be *drum, meaning "a...
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    maddened by pain, carried him away from the battle, with his troopers following; the Battle of Drumclog was little more than a skirmish but cost the...
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    Sites of the Battle of Drumclog and the Battle of Bothwell Bridge Strathaven Castle Wilsontown Ironworks South Lanarkshire College University of the West...
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    fought with the Covenanters at the Battle of Drumclog. His grandson, the fifth Lord, was tried and convicted of the murder of schoolmaster Henry Stenhouse at...
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  • William Cleland (poet) (category People of the Jacobite rising of 1689)
    Immediately on leaving college he joined the army of the Covenanters, and was present at the Battle of Drumclog, where, says Robert Wodrow, some attributed...
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  • Trumpeter's Well (category Springs of Scotland)
    recorded as the site of the death of a government trumpeter or cornet who was killed in the aftermath of the 1679 Battle of Drumclog at which the Covenanters...
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    Viscount of Dundee led a small Government Troop of Cavalry which was surprised and defeated at the Battle of Drumclog in 1679 by an overwhelming force of rebel...
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    anniversary of the battle, in June 1880, approximately 2,000 people commemorated the Battle of Drumclog at St. Ninian's. Another battle took place about...
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    flames. Hackston was also one of the commanders of the Covenanters who fought at the battle of Drumclog on 1 June, and again at Bothwell Bridge on 22 June...
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    early summer of 1679 with the assassination of Archbishop Sharp, Drumclog and the Battle of Bothwell Bridge. The Sanquhar Declaration of 1680 effectively...
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  • Marathas. Battle of Drumclog 1 June – Part of the Scottish Covenanter Wars. Covenanters defeat the Royalists. Battle of Bothwell Bridge 22 June – Part of the...
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  • June 1 (redirect from First of June)
    Covenanters defeat John Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog. 1773 – Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking...
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    early summer of 1679 with the assassination of Archbishop Sharp, Drumclog, and the Battle of Bothwell Bridge. The Sanquhar Declaration of 1680 effectively...
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    The Battle of Langside was fought on 13 May 1568 between forces loyal to Mary, Queen of Scots, and forces acting in the name of her infant son James VI...
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  • who prayed for the success of these rebels in the west—those Covenanters who defeated Claverhouse at the Battle of Drumclog in 1679. The Earl died in 1686...
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  • of 2019[update] there are 40 battlefields on the inventory, the most recent addition being the Battle of Sark which was listed in 2016. The list of battlefields...
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    The Battle of Sheriffmuir (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Sliabh an t-Siorraim, [pl̪ˠaɾ ˈʃʎiəv əɲ ˈtʲʰirˠəm]) was an engagement in 1715 at the height of the Jacobite...
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    The Killing Time (category History of the Church of Scotland)
    of Drumclog and the Battle of Bothwell Bridge. The Sanquhar Declaration of 1680 effectively declared the people could not accept the authority of a King...
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    culminating in an effective open rebellion and the Battle of Drumclog. Given Argyll's previous moderate treatment of the Covenanters, the Privy Council debated...
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  • Loudoun Kirk (category Church of Scotland churches in Scotland)
    Fleming (Covenanter, killed at the Battle of Drumclog). Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira and Marquess of Hastings, died on 28 November 1826...
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    "for the better securing the liberty of the subject" and then adjourns. June 1 – Battle of Drumclog: A group of 200 Scottish Covenanters overwhelm a small...
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    The Battle of the Pass of Brander in Scotland forms a small part of the wider struggle known as the Wars of Scottish Independence, and a large part of the...
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    attacked by a company of dragoons, led by John Graham of Claverhouse. This encounter was to become known as the Battle of Drumclog and saw the Covenanters...
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