On the approach to the Battle of Glenlivet in October 1594, as the government force under the young Earl of Argyll moved through the Glenlivet valley, there was a personal encounter between George Gordon and a government cavalry officer in advance of the main engagement. Gordon allegedly unhorsed his opponent in single combat before the battle proper began. The Glenlivet campaign itself saw Huntly and Erroll's experienced Catholic earls, with Spanish-trained infantry, defeat Argyll's larger but less experienced Highland force through aggressive use of musketry and cavalry on the flanks — a decisive Catholic earls victory that embarrassed James VI.
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