Another episode in the long Sutherland-MacKay conflict. The MacKays of Strathnaver maintained their independence from the Gordon Earls of Sutherland with great difficulty throughout the sixteenth century. Occasional defeats like this one, where their chief was captured, weakened them without breaking them entirely.
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