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Feb 12, 2021 • 28 tweets • 6 min read
Massacre of Glencoe 1692
On the night of the 12-13 February, Captain Thomas Drummond of Argyll's Regiment of Foot delivers orders from Major Robert Duncanson to Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon who is quartered in #Glencoe with a detachment of Argyll's regiment... /1
“You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebells, the McDonalds of Glenco, and put all to the sword under seventy. you are to have a speciall care that the old Fox and his sones doe upon no account escape your hands, you are to secure all the avenues that no man escape"... /2
Feb 12, 2020 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
Massacre of Glencoe 1692
On the night of the 12-13 February, Captain Thomas Drummond of Argyll's Regiment of Foot delivers orders from Major Robert Duncanson to Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon who is quartered in #Glencoe with a detachment of Argyll's regiment... /1
“You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebells, the McDonalds of Glenco, and put all to the sword under seventy. you are to have a speciall care that the old Fox and his sones doe upon no account escape your hands, you are to secure all the avenues that no man escape"... /2
