• Coll the Left-Handed MacDonald'. Gaelic speakers, preferring the patronymic system, generally referred to him as Alasdair MacColla; English and Scots language...
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  • administrator Alasdair Locke, Scottish businessman Alasdair Mac Colla (c. 1610–1647), 17th-century military officer Alasdair Alpin MacGregor (1899–1970)...
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  • a victory for the royalists, led by the Marquess of Montrose and Alasdair MacColla, over Sir John Urry and an army raised by the Covenanter-dominated...
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    Banzai charge Battle of Prestonpans (1745) Stevenson, David (1980). Alasdair MacColla and the Highland problem in the seventeenth century. Donald. ISBN 9780859760553...
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    the plans for an expedition came to fruition, with Alasdair MacColla (also known as Alexander MacDonnell) leading a force of men from Waterford to Scotland...
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  • Partizan Press Stevenson, David (31 July 2014). Highland Warrior: Alasdair MacColla and the Civil Wars. Birlinn, Limited. ISBN 978-1-78027-194-1. Stoyle...
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    of Alasdair MacColla MacDonald, a MacDonald clansman from the Western Isles of Scotland. They included Manus O'Cahan (an Irish cousin to MacColla) and...
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    Elizabeth's Irish Wars, p.79 Fforde, The Great Glen, 2011 Stevenson, Alasdair MacColla and the Highland Problem in the Seventeenth Century, 1980, p.83 Stevenson...
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    Clan Maclean (redirect from Clan MacLean)
    Battle of Kilsyth, alongside men from Clan MacDonald, and other allies from Ireland raised by Alasdair MacColla. Their enemy was the Scottish Argyll government...
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  • Coll Ciotach (redirect from Colla MacDonald)
    Clan". ancestry.com. Retrieved 21 December 2012. Highland Warrior, Alasdair MacColla and the Civil Wars, David Stevenson. Prologue, What's in a Name?,...
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  • Colla MacDonnell was a son of Alexander MacDonnell, Lord of Islay and Kintyre (Cantire), and Catherine, daughter of the Lord of Ardnamurchan. He died...
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    actively support the Royalist cause. Lamont then joined forces with Alasdair MacColla and invaded the lands of the Campbells. Sir James' brother, Archibald...
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  • Kinlochkerran in 1647. Elizabeth, married Alasdair Mac Colla Chiotaich MacDomhnaill, son of Coll Chiotaich Mac Gillespick MacDomhnaill. Barbara, married Archibald...
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    Tippermuir - with the support of Alaster M'Coll Keitach (known as Alasdair MacColla McDonald) and his Irish soldiers, the Battle of Aberdeen, the Battle...
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  • Although he had an excellent contingent of veteran troops under Alasdair MacColla, most of his men were similarly inexperienced. Furthermore, the Irish...
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    allied Irish Confederates sent 2000 disciplined Irish soldiers led by Alasdair MacColla across the sea to assist him. The Irish proved to be formidable fighters...
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    sending 2,000 experienced troops to Scotland under Antrim's relative Alasdair Mac Colla. The Irish landed at Ardnamurchan on the west coast in early July...
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    Duntrune Castle (category Clan MacDougall)
    In the 17th century the castle was besieged by the rival MacDonalds, under Alasdair Mac Colla. The Campbells sold Duntrune in 1792, to the Malcolms of...
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    'Jacobite.' In 1644, Alasdair Mac Colla landed in Scotland with 1500 Irish troops to link up with the Scottish Royalists; Alasdair was from Clan Donald...
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  • literary response.[citation needed] "Alasdair MacColla" – song dating from the 1640s about warrior Alasdair MacColla. Still performed by Capercaillie and...
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    Argyll and David Leslie join forces to defeat Alasdair MacColla, at Rhunahoarine Point in Kintyre. MacColla flees to Ireland; his followers are massacred...
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    Marquess of Huntly's tenantry. With around 1,500 Irish infantry under Alasdair MacColla, a small number of Keppoch clansmen and around 80 horse, Montrose...
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    Leading a force built around an Irish Confederate brigade under Alasdair Mac Colla, Montrose had beaten the Covenanters at Tippermuir, Aberdeen, Inverlochy...
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    force of about 2,000 Irish Confederate troops, under the command of Alasdair Mac Colla, sailed to Scotland in June 1644, where they joined with Royalist...
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    Elizabeth's Irish Wars, p.79 Fforde, The Great Glen, 2011 Stevenson, Alasdair MacColla and the Highland Problem in the Seventeenth Century, 1980, p.83 Stevenson...
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    live cattle. In 1644 the Confederates sent around 1,500 men under Alasdair MacColla to Scotland to support the royalists there under James Graham, 1st...
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    Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-6302-6. Stevenson, David (1980). Alasdair MacColla and the Highland Problem in the Seventeenth Century. Edinburgh: John...
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  • Argyll and David Leslie join forces to defeat Alasdair MacColla, at Rhunahoarine Point in Kintyre. MacColla flees to Ireland; his followers are massacred...
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    feud between Clan MacDonald and Clan Campbell. The Royalist forces of Alasdair Mac Colla, supported by men of Clan MacDougall and Clan MacAulay, defeated...
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    85 Anstruther, Page 27 Stevenson, David (1994). Highland Warrior. Alasdair MacColla and the Civil Wars. Edinburgh: The Saltire Society. ISBN 0-85411-059-3...
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