Lewis crofters raided and occupied the Park deer forest in the Pairc district in 1887, hunting deer to feed their families and protest the conversion of traditional grazing land into deer forest. The Park Deer Raid attracted national attention and the government dispatched a gunboat to suppress the action.
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