The Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments, Volume 1 (of 2)

Charles leaves Benbecula and lands in the island of Glass--Proceeds to Harris--Iffurt--Glass--Benbecula--Removes to South Uist--Meets Miss Flora Macdonald--Charles proceeds to S...

Highland Manners, Customs, &c.--Character of ancient Highlanders --Highland Dress--Superstitions--Kelpies--Urisks--Daoine Shith --Practices in the Western Islands--_Deis-iuil_--...

Duke of Cumberland marches north--Crosses the Spey--Proceedings of Charles--Duke of Cumberland arrives at Nairn--Prince Charles leaves Inverness and forms his army on Drummossie...

Montrose marches to Inverness and Elgin, wasting the lands of the Covenanters--Enters and plunders Banff--Deputation from Aberdeen--Death of Donald Farquharson--Montrose imposes...

Viscount Dundee--Proceedings of the convention--General Hugh Mackay--Attempt to apprehend Dundee, who retires to the north--Mackay follows Dundee--Dundee joined by Keppoch--Move...

Plan of the march of the rebels into England--Composition of the Highland army--Highland mode of fighting--March of Prince Charles into England--Siege and capture of Carlisle--D...

Charles leaves Perth and proceeds southwards--Crosses the Forth--Proceeds towards Edinburgh--Great confusion in Edinburgh--The Edinburgh volunteers--Gardiner’s and Hamilton’s dr...

Trial and execution of the prisoners taken in the rebellion--Bills of attainder against the Earl of Mar and others--Proceedings of General Cadogan in the Highlands--Trials of th...

MACINTYRE, 58 MACNEILL, see page 162 Vol. II., 74 ROSS, ” 235 ” 78 MACLEAN, ” 223 ” 99 MACLEOD, } MACKENZIE,} ” 191 ” 112 STUART, ” 297 ” 186 MUNRO, ” 232 ” 258 SUTHERLAND, see...

Huntly refuses to join Montrose--Aboyne joins and shortly deserts him--Executions by the Covenanters--Montrose has an interview with Huntly--Defeat of the Campbells at Callander...

Measures of the government--Attempt to surprise Edinburgh Castle--Duke of Argyle appointed to the command of the government forces--Expedition of General Gordon into Argyle--Pro...

Charles I. attempts to introduce Episcopacy into Scotland--Meets with opposition--Preparations for war--Doings in the North--Earl of Montrose--Montrose at Aberdeen--Arrests the...

Doings in Sutherland--Battle of Torran-Dubh--Feud between the Keiths and the clan Gun--John Mackay and Murray of Aberscors--Alexander Sutherland, the bastard, claims the Earldom...

Re-capture of Inverness by the Royalists--Preparations for opening the campaign--Mar’s departure from Perth--Junction of the western clans--Advance of Argyle towards Dunblane--P...

Continued animosity between the Earls of Caithness and Sutherland--The latter imprisoned as a suspected Catholic--Formidable Rebellion in the South Hebrides--Suppressed by the E...

Arrival of Charles II.--Cromwell invades Scotland--Attacks the Scotch army near Edinburgh--His further movements--The Dunfermline Declaration--Retreat of Cromwell--Battle of Dun...

Trial and Execution of the Marquis of Argyle--His character--Feud between the Earl of Argyle and the Macleans--The “Highland Host”--The Test--Trial and Condemnation of the Earl...

The Highland army returns to Scotland--Arrives at Glasgow --Proceedings of the Jacobites in the North--Arrest and escape of Lord Lovat--Skirmish at Inverury--Alarm at Edinburgh-...

Negotiations with Charles II.--Proceedings of Montrose --Pluscardine’s Insurrection--Landing of Kinnoul and Montrose in Orkney--Montrose’s Declaration--Montrose advances southwa...

Charles returns to Holyrood--State of public feeling--Charles resolves to remain at Edinburgh--Measures taken to increase the army--Charles’s proceedings at Edinburgh--Blockade...

Duke of Cumberland sent down to Scotland--Marches westward--Siege of Stirling castle raised--Highland army retreats to the north--Council held at Crieff--Duke of Cumberland purs...

Proceedings which followed Culloden, their cause and consequences--Influence of clan-feeling--Lord Lovat and the Frasers--Parliamentary measures--Disarming Act--Act against the...

Commission of _Oyer and Terminer_--Trial of prisoners--Francis Townley--Jemmy Dawson--Lords Kilmarnock, Cromarty, and Balmerino--Execution of these noblemen--Other executions--T...

Insurrection of the clan Chattan against the Earl of Murray --Dispute between the laird of Duffus and Gordon, younger of Embo--Sir Donald Mackay’s machinations--Feud among the G...

Early Inhabitants--Roman Writers--Aristotle--Tacitus--Dion Cassius--Caledonians and Mæatæ--Eumenius--Picts--Dicaledones and Vecturiones--Claudian--Inferences--Ecclesiastical Chr...

Preparations--Departure of the expedition--Incidents of the voyage--The Prince lands in Eriska--Has interviews with Macdonald of Boisdale and young Clanranald--Kinlochmoidart, D...

Mackay’s movements--Advances to Perth--Colonel Cannon marches north and is joined by several clans--Followed by Mackay--Cannon returns south--The Cameronians at Dunkeld--Movemen...

Arrival of Prince Charles at Paris--Meeting with his brother --Reception at Fontainebleau--He returns to Paris--Memorialises Louis--Admonished by his father as to his conduct in...

Early History--Scottish Settlement--Origin of Scots--Dalriada--Conversion of Picts--Druidism--St. Columba--Iona--Spread of Christianity--Brude and his Successors--Dun-Nechtan--P...

As it is generally acknowledged that the physical character of a country influences in a great degree the moral and physical character of its inhabitants, and thus to a certain...

Montrose crosses the Tay to Collace--Marches through Angus and Mearns--Battle of Aberdeen--Supineness of the Gordons--Movements of Argyle--Montrose retreats through Badenoch--Se...

Feud between the Colquhouns and Macgregors--Macgregors outlawed--Execution of their Chief--Quarrel between the clan Kenzie and Glengarry--Alister Mac-Uilleam-Mhoir beheaded--Law...

The Darien Scheme--Hopes of the Jacobites--Death of James II.--Death of King William--Accession of the Princess Anne--The Scottish Parliament--Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat--Meeting...

Conduct of the Government--Intelligence of the Prince’s arrival reaches Edinburgh--Contradictory reports--Preparations of Sir John Cope--Marches to the North--Resolves to march...

During 1690 and 1691 the Jacobites caused the government much trouble and anxiety by their ceaseless plotting to get up an insurrection, in which they were to be assisted by sup...

Alexander I., 1107-1124. David I., 1124-1153. Malcolm IV., 1153-1165. William the Lion, 1165-1214. Alexander II., 1214-1249. Alexander III., 1249-1285. Regency, 1286-1290. Inter...

Continued strife between the Earls of Sutherland and Caithness--Short Reconciliation--Strife renewed--Fresh Reconciliation--Quarrel between Clan Gun and other tribes--The Earl o...

Proceedings of the Whigs--Declaration of the Chevalier de St. George--Arrival of George I. in England--Conduct of the Earl of Mar--Government measures--Intrigues of the Jacobite...

The Norse Invasions--Kenneth--Constantine--Aodh--Grig and Eocha--Donald IV.--Constantine III.--Danes--Battle of Brunanburg--Malcolm I.--Indulph--Duff--Culen--Kenneth III.--Battl...

Foreign intrigues--Edinburgh Association--Maria Theresa--Jacobite intrigues--Drummond of Bochaldy at Edinburgh, and Murray of Broughton at Paris--Plan of a French invasion--Prin...

Departure of Prince Charles from Avignon incognito--Visits London--Proposed marriage with a Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt--Charles’s reported change of religion--Arrest and execut...

James I.--State of Country--Policy of the King to the Highland Chiefs--Lord of the Isles--Disturbances in Sutherland--Barbarity of a Robber--James’s Highland Expedition--Disturb...

The HISTORY OF THESE REGIMENTS is to a great extent the HISTORY OF BRITAIN’S BATTLES for more than a century past; and the great military glory which our country has acquired, h...

his claim to succeed Queen Anne, 421; reward for his apprehension, 422; proclaimed at Aberdeen, Castle Gordon, Brechin, Montrose, and Dundee, 436; the Master of Sinclair’s descr...

for details, _see_-- Ch. I. 1793-1796, 617-625. II. 1796-1817, 625-640. III. 1804-1856, second battalion, 640-659, till its consolidation with first battalion, 1817, and first b...

left in Scotland to watch Montrose, 240; movements, 245-256; escapes from Tower, and appointed generalissimo of all the Royal forces in Scotland, 294; rout of his army by Monk,...

the 71st, 509; the 72nd, 549; the 74th, 609; the 75th, formerly a Highland regiment, also engaged, 616; the 78th, 667; the 79th, 715; the 91st, 748; the 92nd, 769; and the 93rd,...

Pretender, the, son of James II., birth of, i. 341; a reward offered for his apprehension, 424; banished from France, 480; Russia and Sweden unite to restore him, 481; he leaves...

Brigade Centres, or “Army Sub-districts” of the Highland regiments--the 42nd and 79th is Perth; the 71st and 78th is Fort George; the 72nd and 91st is Stirling; the 74th is Hami...

Lorn, the leader of the first colony that settled on the western coast of Argyll and the adjacent islands in 503 A.D., i. 34; his death, 41; the tribe and district of, 34; Macdo...

Cawnpoor, siege and second massacre of, ii. 667; view of Suttee Chowra Ghât, the scene of second massacre, 668; the third massacre, 669; view of mausoleum over the well, 670; an...

Highlanders, agreements and bargains, i. 313; arming in 1745, 521; armour, 327; bagpipe playing, 312; bard’s (influence), 315; bonnet, 301; character, 299; false estimate of it,...

Footnote [135] is referenced from inside Footnote [134]. Footnotes [565] through [578] are referenced from inside Footnote [564]. Footnotes [580] through [583] are referenced fr...

Appendix, Ashantee Campaign, 803. For details of history see contents of-- Ch. I. 1772-1775, ii. 324. II. 1775-1795, 349. III. 1795-1811, 362. IV. 1811-1816, 380. V. 1816-1854,...

This 1875 edition originally was published in eight separate books as a subscription publication. The Preface, Title pages, Tables of Contents and Lists of Illustrations (the Fr...

The whole of this part has been THOROUGHLY REVISED, RE-MODELLED, and to a great extent RE-WRITTEN. All the introductory chapters relating to the PRIMITIVE HISTORY of the Highlan...

Havelock, K.C.B., Brig.-Gen., his portrait, ii. 644; his arrival at Busheer in 1857--his high opinion of the 78th Highlanders, 666; sketch map to illustrate his military operati...

Macpherson, Cluny, promises to raise his clan for Prince Charles, 1745, i. 534; with 300 Macphersons joins Lord George Murray, 1745, 641; conducts Prince Charles to a secure ret...

Mackintosh, Clan, their history, arms, motto, branches, and etymology of the name, ii. 201; the rival claims of Mackintosh of Mackintosh and Macpherson of Cluny to the headship...

In any history of the Highlands, an account of the CLANS ought to occupy a place of the first importance, and in the present work, the GREATER PART OF THE SECOND VOLUME is devot...

Seton, Lt.-Col. (74th), his noble conduct during the loss of the “Birkenhead” troop-ship, Feb. 26, 1852, ii. 604; monument erected by Queen Victoria to his memory in Chelsea Hos...

Perth, view of, in 17th century, i. 220; captured by Montrose, 186; return of Charles II. to, 285; captured by Cromwell, 289; Chevalier proclaimed at, in 1715, 436; Prince Charl...

Gordon, Sir Patrick, of Auchindun, i. 100, 103, 107; Sir Robert, commission to from James I., 144; march upon Caithness, 146; Sir Alexander, at Broray Bridge, 152; of Rothiemay,...

Mackay, General Hugh, of Scourie, his portrait, i. 361; resumé of his history, 352; appointed by William and Mary, 4th Jan. 1689, “Major-Gen. of all forces whatever, within our...

Blair Castle abandoned by the Duke of Athole, and seized by the Marquis of Tullibardine, i. 534; the family residence of the Dukes of Athole, with engravings of as it stood in 1...

created baron in 1796, 240; raises the 78th or Ross-shire Buffs, 617; engraving of original poster addressed by him to the Highlanders in raising the 78th, 618; his daughter ent...