1689

27th July 1689 the first shots in the Jacobite cause were fired at The Battle of Killiecrankie

from http://www.kennedydna.com/Glencoe.htm

The raising of a regiment of foot soldiers loyal to the Crown by the Earl of Argyll is well documented. 600 men were to be raised in 1689 from the glens of Lorn, Cowal, Knapdale and Argyll, mustered in 10 companies, officered by Campbell gentry and their sons. The company officers were almost all Campbell gentry, landowners and tacksmen of Argyll or their sons. In the beginning the companies were raised in the old manner of the clan levy, each captain bringing 60 of his own people. Argyll's company was raised from his tenants at Inverary. Auchinbreck's was from his lands at Knapdale, the Barbreck brothers from Kilbride. The names of these private men to be found on the muster rolls are the common names of Argyll; Campbell, McCallum, MacDiarmid, MacKissock, MacKellar, MacIvor, MacUre and MacNichol. Later companies raised in Cowal and Rosneath contained some lowlanders but the great majority were Campbell clansmen.


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