Alasdair Mac Colla MacDonald was Montrose military partner and commander of the Irish-Highland contingent. His personal war was against the Campbells, who had dispossessed his family. The Cowal raid in 1644 was one of several anti-Campbell operations that served both Royalist strategy and MacDonald clan objectives simultaneously. MacColla was feared throughout Argyll.
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