The young and inexperienced fifth Earl of Argyll led a government force of around ten thousand men north from the Highlands to suppress the Catholic earls in October 1594. His march through Atholl and Badenoch gathered Highland contingents but his force was notably short of firearms and artillery — the weapons that would prove decisive. Argyll's overconfidence in his numerical superiority led him to accept battle at Glenlivet against a smaller but professionally equipped Catholic earls force. The Argyll campaign is a textbook example of a numerically superior force being defeated by better equipped and positioned opponents.
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