Memoirs of the Lord Viscount Dundee and the Highland Clans: With an Account of His Officers After They Went to France, Together with The Massacre of Glenco1818 - 207 páginas |
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Memoirs of the Lord Viscount Dundee and the Highland Clans: With an Account ... Charles Leslie Pré-visualização indisponível - 2017 |
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abbey Achaius aforesaid Alexander ambassadours army Athole battell betwixt bredth Britons brother buried in Icolmkill called Camelon Capt Captain Caratacus Christ Clans Colonel Hill company of officers countrie crowne cruell daugh daughter dayes depones Duke Dundee Earle of Fife Edinburgh England Fergusius fishes France Gallienus garrison Glenco Glenco-men Glenlyon governour hath Highlanders honour horse instructions Ireland island isles John justice killed King Edward King James king of Scots king's kings of Scotland Kippoch land Lieut Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton loch Lord lyes Majesty Majesty's married Marshal de Noailles massacre of Glenco Master of Stair's miles of length murder nobles oath of allegiance orders Parliament Perth Picts prince realme rebels river Robert Romans Scotland Scots and Picts sent shew Sir Thomas Livingston slaughter soldiers sonne Stair's letters succeeded sundrie taking the oath thereof Thomas Livingston towne unto valiant vanquished victory warres William
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Página 29 - And upon the whole matter, it is the opinion of the commission, first, that it was a great wrong that Glenco's case and diligence, as to his taking the oath of allegiance, with Ardkinlas's certificate of his taking the oath of allegiance on the 6th of January 1692, and...
Página 30 - Glenco came not in within the time prescribed :' thirdly, that there was nothing in the king's instructions to warrant the committing of the foresaid slaughter, even as to the thing itself, and far less as to the manner of it...
Página 79 - You are to have especial care,' that the old fox and his sons do upon no account escape your hands. You are to secure all the avenues, that no man escape. This you are to put in execution at five...
Página 26 - This last letter, with the instructions for Colonel Hill, was received by Major Forbes in his name at Edinburgh, and the Major depones, That, by the allowance he had from the Colonel, he did unseal the packet, and found therein the letter and instructions as above, which he sent forward to Colonel Hill; and that in the beginning of February 1692, being in his way to...
Página 31 - The Most High and Mightie Prince, James, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith.
Página 28 - James, and the glory of his country. Then the Highlanders fired, threw down their fusils, rushed in upon the enemy with sword, target, and pistol, who did not maintain their ground two minutes after the Highlanders were amongst them...
Página 10 - ... ment. Whence he goes on in his of the 3d " of December to say, that since the govern" ment cannot oblige them, it is obliged to ruin " some of them to weaken and frighten the " rest, and that the Macdonalds will fall in this " net ; and, in effect, seems even from that " time, which was almost a month before the " expiring of the King's indemnity, to project " with Lieutenant-colonel Hamilton that some " of them should be rooted out and destroyed. " His Majesty's proclamation of indemnity was...
Página 7 - Ultime Scotorum! potuit, quo sospite solo, Libertas patriae salva fuisse tuae: Te moriente, novos accepit Scotia cives, Accepitque novos, te moriente, deos. Ilia nequit superesse tibi, tu non potes illi, Ergo Caledoniae nomen inane, vale. Tuque vale, gentis priscae fortissime ductor, Ultime Scotorum, ac ultime Grame, vale!
Página 39 - Nothing but your loyalty, and that of a few of my subjects in Britain, who are forced from their allegiance by the Prince of Orange, and who, I know, will be ready on all occasions to serve me and my distressed family, could make me willing to live. The sense of what all of you have done and undergone for your loyalty, hath made so deep an impression...
Página 25 - Ronoch would be secured, and the hazard certified to the Laird of Weems to reset them ; in that case Argyle's detachment, with a party that may be posted in Island Stalker, must cut them off, and the people of Appin are none of the best.