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On 18 March 1689 the most hated man in Edinburgh rode out of the city with fifty horsemen, and four months later he had beaten a British army in the worst quarter of an hour in its history.
John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, raised the Highlands for a king who had run to France and won at Killiecrankie the most complete victory the Jacobite cause would ever see. He did not live to read the despatch. What his death began was a fourteen-month war: the burning street-fight at Dunkeld, where a regiment of psalm-singers held a walled cathedral against five thousand clansmen; the dawn rout at Cromdale; and a year of oaths and bribes, twelve thousand pounds in gold sent north to buy a peace, ending in the deadline of 1 January 1692 that one old chief missed by six days. What that missed deadline cost is the book's last act. Glencoe was no feud and no accident. It was an administrative killing that moved through letters, quartering orders, a king's double signature and a written hour before it became murder in the snow, and the documents that prove it survived because the men who wrote them never expected to be read. Here is the whole of the first Jacobite war as one story, from the standard on Dundee Law to the scored-out oath that doomed a glen, drawn from contemporary memoirs, despatches and the parliamentary inquiry.Wie gefällt Ihnen unser Shop?
