Dunkeld

Following the death of Viscount Dundee at the Battle of Killiecrankie, command of the Jacobites passed to Colonel Alexander Cannon. The Scottish council, fearing the continued Jacobite onslaught, ordered the 27 year old Lieutenant Colonel William Cleland and the newly …

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Following the death of Viscount Dundee at the Battle of Killiecrankie, command of the Jacobites passed to Colonel Alexander Cannon. The Scottish council, fearing the continued Jacobite onslaught, ordered the 27 year old Lieutenant Colonel William Cleland and the newly mustered Cameronians regiment of 1200 men strong, to move north from Perth and to hold onto Dunkeld at all costs. As the town had no walls, Cleland ordered his troops to take up defensive positions in the cathedral, the town’s buildings and the nearby mansion of the Marquess of Atholl. The Jacobites, outnumbered the Cameronians and advanced in their traditional charge, but in the narrow winding streets, there was no room for the type of Highland charge that had succeeded in Killiecrankie. After repeated attempts to bring the Cameronian defenders out into the open, and after a day of fighting, and seeing that the these Cameronians had no thought of surrender, the Highlanders decided to call it a day and withdrew across the neighboring hills.

Dunkeld, Scotland

The Battle of Dunkeld was fought between Jacobite clans supporting the deposed king James VII of Scotland and a regiment of covenanters supporting William of Orange, King of Scotland, in the streets around Dunkeld Cathedral, Dunkeld, Scotland, on 21 August 1689 and formed part of the Jacobite rising of 1689, commonly called Dundee's rising in Scotland. The battlefield was added to the Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland in 2012.

Wikipedia: Battle of Dunkeld

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