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The Glen Coe Massacre: Clan Feud and Government Betrayal
In February 1692, soldiers of the Earl of Argyll's regiment, led by Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, turned on their hosts after nearly two weeks of hospitality, butchering around 38 members of Clan MacDonald of Glen Coe. The massacre was not a spontaneous act of clan hatred but a coldly calculated government operation, ordered by Secretary of State John Dalrymple and approved by King William III, as part of a strategy to suppress the Jacobite clans of the Highlands. Lucas and Luna explore the political background: the 1691 oath of allegiance deadline, the legendary late arrival of…
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