William Cunningham, Earl of Glencairn, raised the standard of royalist resistance in the Highlands in 1653 in the name of Charles II. The Glencairn Rising was the most significant Highland royalist movement during the Cromwellian Interregnum. Clans including the MacDonalds, MacGregors and others joined the rising. A muster at Loch Ericht in Perthshire gathered several thousand men, but the rising lacked a capable commander until General Middleton arrived from the Continent.
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