Braes crofters on Skye resisted the attempt by Lord MacDonald's factor to serve summonses for non-payment of rent. When a party of fifty police from Glasgow arrived to enforce the summonses they were met by a crowd of men and women who fought them with sticks and stones at the Braes peninsula. The Battle of the Braes was the opening confrontation of the Crofters War.
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