Crieff — like Auchterarder — was burned by Jacobite forces on Mar's orders to deny it to Argyll's army advancing from Stirling. The town's location at the gateway to the Highland passes made it strategically important. Its burning was part of the same scorched-earth strategy that caused widespread civilian suffering in Perthshire during the 1715 rising.
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