BattlefieldsBonnymuir skirmish Scottish Radical War 1820
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Bonnymuir skirmish Scottish Radical War 1820

1820
Scotland
Era
modern
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
Scotland
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Forces
Not recorded in historical accounts
Forces
Stirlingshire Yeomanry Cavalry detachment
VS
Victor
Not recorded in historical accounts
Forces
Approximately forty radical weavers under Andrew Hardie and John Baird
Outcome
Radicals defeated; nineteen captured; leaders Andrew Hardie and John Baird hanged and beheaded at Stirling; others transported; only significant armed confrontation of the Scottish Radical War
The Battle

History & Significance

A party of approximately forty radical weavers and workers from Condorrat marched toward the Carron Iron Works to seize cannon; they were intercepted by a detachment of Stirlingshire Yeomanry Cavalry at Bonnymuir near Bonnybridge and defeated in a brief skirmish

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