Tiree crofters resisted eviction by the Argyll estate and refused to pay rent in a confrontation that required a government gunboat and police detachment to resolve. The Tiree actions were part of the wave of crofter resistance across the Hebrides in 1886 that coincided with the passage of the Crofters Holdings Act.
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