The most notorious atrocity of Scottish history. Government soldiers, mostly Campbells under Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon, accepted two weeks of MacDonald hospitality then rose at dawn and killed their hosts. The MacIain MacDonalds had been slow in taking the oath of allegiance to William II. The killing of men under trust of hospitality violated every Highland code. Parliamentary inquiry condemned the massacre but no one was tried. The event poisons Campbell-MacDonald relations to this day.
38 MacDonalds killed; women and children died of exposure fleeing in snow
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