The MacGregors ambushed and destroyed a Colquhoun force of twice their size in Glen Fruin near the southern end of Loch Lomond. Around 200 Colquhouns were killed. Prisoners were murdered. A group of schoolboys watching the battle were also killed. The Colquhouns brought their widows before James VI in a procession holding the blood-stained shirts of their dead husbands. Appalled, James VI passed an act proscribing the entire MacGregor clan — making the very name illegal on pain of death. Clan Gregor remained outlawed for nearly 200 years.
c.200 Colquhouns killed; schoolboys murdered
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