I was driving back from Skye and stopped in Glenshiel, I really like this particular glen. As it happened I’d stopped at a lay-by at the site of the Battle of Glenshiel. I took a photo of the cairn and the brief description of the battle but it was not too clear. So here is what the cairn has to say about the battle:

On the 10th of June 1719, a Jacobite army of Clansmen and Spaniards fought and lost the Battle of Glenshiel. This was part of their strategy to restore a Stuart King to the British throne, James VIII / III. The Jacobites had moved into the glen from the west and occupied the hill tops to the north and south of the river at this spot, they were armed with swords and muskets. The government troops which included Clansmen and Dutch troops, moved in from the east and spread out along both banks of the small river flowing along the glen and moved up the mountainsides (you can see in my pictures that the mountains are tight behind the small hills).

The Government troops had four coehorn ? mortars, which they used to shower the Jacobites on the hill above with shot, those on the south first, then those on the north side. They then attacked the Jacobites from the higher ground putting the Jacobites to flight.

About 100 Jacobites and 20 Government troops were killed in this the last engagement of the “Little Rising”.

Approaching Glenshiel from the West
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The hills to the south
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That's my hand preventing flare
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The hills to the north
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Looking out to the east, the battle appears to have taken place at the narrowest point
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