In the three days following the Battle of Aberdeen on 13 September 1644, Montrose's army occupied the city in a notorious period of plunder and killing. Montrose's Irish troops killed male citizens indiscriminately and plundered the city's considerable merchant wealth. The sack of Aberdeen was the most controversial episode of the entire Montrose campaign. The minister of St Machar's, John Spalding, left a detailed eyewitness account.
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