The Raid on Rannoch took place in 1753 in the tumultuous aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Lieutenant Hector Munro, 8th laird of Novar who was...
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(Sergent Mòr), who fought on after the Jacobite rising of 1745 until his capture at the Raid on Rannoch and execution for cattle raiding in 1753. See: Border...
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Earl of Glencairn was in Rannoch looking for support for Charles II. He raised the Clan MacGregor from the Isle of Rannoch and Alexander Robertson led...
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the Duke of Cumberland marching on Inverness. Colin Campbell of Glenure whose men were defeated at the raid on Bun Rannoch was later murdered in what is...
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Aberchalder. On 24 May, Lord Loudoun almost captured the rebel Jacobite Donald Cameron of Lochiel who was forced to disperse his men and flee to Rannoch. On 25...
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The Whiggamore Raid (or "March of the Whiggamores") was a march on Edinburgh by supporters of the Kirk faction of the Covenanters to take power from the...
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The Raid on Ross was a conflict that took place in 1491 in the Scottish Highlands. It was fought between the Clan Mackenzie and several other clans, including...
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by Letitia Elizabeth Landon in her 1823 work "Glencoe", T. S. Eliot's "Rannoch, by Glencoe" and "Two Poems from Glencoe" by Douglas Stewart. The massacre...
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The Chaseabout Raid was a rebellion by James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, against his half sister, Mary, Queen of Scots, on 26 August 1565, over her marriage...
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Battle of Glen Fruin (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
MacGregor) and Clan Colquhoun were at feud due to the MacGregors carrying out raids on the Colquhoun's lands. The Colquhouns gained royal support and raised an...
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Malcolm II of Scotland (section Raids into Bernicia)
in the Viking Age, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2014, ISBN 9781906566784 Daly, Rannoch (2018); Birth of the Border, The Battle of Carham 1018 AD, (Alnwick; Wanney...
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The Raids of Urquhart were two raids carried out in the vicinity of Urquhart Castle in the Scottish Highlands in October 1544 and April 1545 where a large...
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The Raid of Angus took place in 1391 when Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, otherwise known as the Wolf of Badenoch, raided the lands of Angus, Scotland...
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1930s they won the contract for the design and construction of Kinloch Rannoch weir for the Grampian Electricity Supply Company. This consists of three...
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Geert Wilders (section Views on Islam)
April 2015, Wilders held a speech for Pegida in Dresden. Ban on entering Lord Pearson of Rannoch and Baroness Cox, members of the House of Lords (the upper...
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trending topics on displayed social media screens. Blue says that she left forensics after seeing materials confiscated from Iain Rannoch, a child torturer...
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(alternately called Castle McDuck) which is located in Dismal Downs, somewhere in Rannoch Moor, a non-fictional moorland area in north-central Scotland approximately...
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captain of Blair Castle, and a mother sometimes described as "a wench in Rannoch". He was a member of the Clan Leslie. At an early age, Alexander was fostered...
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Battle of Sheriffmuir (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
on 10 November. Spies informed Argyll of Mar's actions, and he moved his army of about 4,000 to Sheriffmuir, near Dunblane. The two armies met on the...
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Battle of Cromdale (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
Battle of Cromdale took place at the Haughs of Cromdale on 30 April and 1 May 1690. The site is on a hillside near the village of Cromdale, Strathspey, historically...
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of Culloden Jacobite risings Eilean Munde Lochaber axe Cateran Raids of Urquhart Rannoch Moor and the Loch of the Lost Sword. Mac an Tàilleir, Iain. "Ainmean...
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Knoydart (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
the Seven Men gave up their fight to obtain crofts on Knoydart. A cairn commemorating their land raid was unveiled at Inverie in 1981. The Knoydart Foundation...
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The Twilight Zone and explores technology and its side-effects. It began on the British television network Channel 4 before moving to the American streaming...
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ultimately ended with the geth seizing control of the quarian homeworld Rannoch and the exile of the surviving quarians; the former quarian territories...
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(14 July 1996). "MURDER COPS QUIZ pounds 40m RAID BOSS". The Free Library. Archived from the original on 30 March 2024. Retrieved 30 March 2024. "Murder...
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Carlisle line from closure in 1989. The documentary was first broadcast in 2010 on BBC Two and has returned annually for a current total of 15 series. The series...
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Landsverk L-60 Vickers MK. D Madsen 20mm QF 6-Pounder Muirchú PAS Fort Rannoch MTB-1 MTB-2 MTB-3 MTB-4 MTB-5 MTB-6 Various port control pilot boats Morris...
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Battle of Langside (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
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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Campbell of Glenorchy, asking him to demolish a house of strength on an island in Loch Rannoch. The Clan Macdonald of Clanranald were rebuilding the house,...
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German submarine U-48 (1939) (category Coordinates not on Wikidata)
headed to the Irish coast, where Muirchú and Fort Rannoch were waiting for them. Eros was beached on Errarooey strand. While she was being repaired, Irish...
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