The Sanquhar Declaration of June 1680 was the most extreme act of Covenanting defiance. Richard Cameron and twenty-two armed followers rode into Sanquhar and read a declaration that renounced allegiance to Charles II as a tyrant and declared war on his government. Government forces were dispatched to capture them but could not prevent the act. Six weeks later Cameron was killed at Ayrsmoss. The declaration became a sacred text of the Cameronian movement.
Cameron and c.22 armed followers; government forces unable to intercept in time
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