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Book A History of Clan Campbell

Download or read book A History of Clan Campbell written by Alastair Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Clan Campbell  From origins to Flodden

Download or read book A History of Clan Campbell From origins to Flodden written by Alastair Campbell Campbell of Airds and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Clan Campbell from its earliest documented existence in 1263 to the present.

Book The Campbells  1210 1513

Download or read book The Campbells 1210 1513 written by Stephen Boardman and published by Origin. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If not perhaps the most popular Highland clan, the Campbells are undoubtedly one of the most successful. The Campbell earls of Argyll have traditionally enjoyed a rather unsavoury historical reputation, viewed by their rivals with a mixture of fear, envy and respect. The spectacular advance of Campbell power in the medieval Scottish kingdom has normally been explained in terms of the family’s ruthless and duplicitous suppression of their fellow-Gaels in Argyll and the Hebrides at the behest of the Scottish crown. In particular, Clan Campbell’s success is seen to be built on the destruction of older and more prestigious regional lordships in the west, such as those of the MacDougall lords of Argyll and the MacDonald lords of the Isles. This book reassesses these negative images and interpretations of the growth of Campbell authority from the thirteenth century and the opening of the Wars of Independence through to the death of Archibald, 2nd earl of Argyll, at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. The lords who dominated the medieval Clan Campbell emerge more as individuals enjoying complex and ambiguous relationships with the Scottish crown and the culture and politics of Gaelic-speaking Scotland, rather than as unquestioning agents of the Stewart monarchy and committed converts to the aristocratic culture of lowland Scotland.

Book Lady of the Glen

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  • Author : Jennifer Roberson
  • Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • Release : 2013-08-01
  • ISBN : 0758292236
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Lady of the Glen written by Jennifer Roberson and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enemies become lovers in a divided Scotland in this “marvelous tale” of history and passion (Diana Gabaldon). From birth, Catriona Campbell and Alasdair Og MacDonald are enemies—for he is the second son of her clan’s most powerful foe. Yet from the moment they meet, they know they will lie in each other’s arms someday. Their love, though centuries forbidden, comes at the most dangerous of times, as they become pawns of war . . . and of history. For rebellion has been stirring, and under the orders of King William III, a bloody price will be paid at Glencoe . . . This “stirring” love story set against the backdrop of a notorious massacre is “well worth a Highland journey” (Kirkus Reviews). “Roberson’s world of 17th-century Scotland is atmospherically real.” —Publishers Weekly

Book The Lords of the Isles

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  • Author : Raymond Campbell Paterson
  • Publisher : Birlinn Limited
  • Release : 2008-05
  • ISBN : 9781841587189
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book The Lords of the Isles written by Raymond Campbell Paterson and published by Birlinn Limited. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing its origins back to the great Somerled, Raymond Campbell Paterson charts the steady ascent of Clan Donald to the zenith of its power in the 15th century, when the Lords of the Isles controlled much of the Hebrides, as well as extensive parts of the mainland, including the vast earldom of Ross. So powerful had the clan become that it was even able to challenge the authority of the Scottish Crown at the Battles of Harlaw and Inverlochy and plan to partition Scotland with Edward IV of England. Pride was followed by destruction, and James IV finally deposed the last Lord of the Isles in 1493. But under the chiefs of Clanranald, Glengarry, Sleat, Keppoch, Dunyveg and Glencoe, the various branches of the clan. Large and small, continued for many years to fight for their own independence and the independence of the old Gaelic world. The former enemies of the house of Stewart, they ended among the last of its defenders. Long vanished as a territorial power, the past glory of Clan Donald continues to be remembered to this very day.

Book A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans

Download or read book A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans written by James Browne and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Clan Campbell

Download or read book A History of Clan Campbell written by Alastair Campbell (of Airds.) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crawford

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  • Author : Iain Gray
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997-04-01
  • ISBN : 9781852171094
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Crawford written by Iain Gray and published by . This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Confederate

Download or read book The British Confederate written by Allan I. MacInnes and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interplay of roles of the Marquess of Argyll, as clan chief, Scottish magnate and influential British statesman, make him a worthy counterpoint to Cromwell. This book reviews Argyll's formative influence in shaping British frontier policy during the period 1607–38 and his radical, financially creative and highly partial leadership of the Covenanting Movement in Scotland, 1638–45, when Covenanters rather than Royalists or Parliamentarians directed the political agenda in Britain. It examines his role as reluctant but calculated revolutionary in pursuing confessional confederation throughout the British Isles, and in restoring Scotland's international relations particularly with France. His ambivalent role as a military leader is contrasted with that of his genius as a political operator, 1646–51. Reappraising his trial and execution as a scapegoat for reputedly collaborating with Oliver Cromwell and the regicides who executed Charles I in the 1650s, it rehabilitates Argyll's reputation as a tarnished Covenanting hero rather than an unalloyed Royalist villain. The book is firmly grounded in public and private archival sources in the UK, the USA and Scandinavia, and draws especially on privileged access to archives in Inveraray Castle, Argyllshire. It should appeal to those interested in clanship, civil war and British state formation.

Book A History of Clan Campbell  From the Restoration to the present day

Download or read book A History of Clan Campbell From the Restoration to the present day written by Alastair Campbell Campbell of Airds and published by History of Clan Campbell. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Clan Campbell from its earliest documented existence in 1263 to the present.

Book The Scottish Rogue

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  • Author : Heather McCollum
  • Publisher : Entangled: Amara
  • Release : 2018-09-24
  • ISBN : 1640636536
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book The Scottish Rogue written by Heather McCollum and published by Entangled: Amara. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously released as A Rose in the Highlands on Entangled’s Amara imprint 1684, Scottish Highlands Clan chief Grey Campbell would rather die than see Finlarig Castle, his family home, fall into English hands. He’s already had to fight off a blazing fire, likely set by the outsiders constantly lurking outside the castle, so one beautiful Englishwoman flashing a bill of sale does not intimidate him. Evelyn Worthington has dreams her own. Dreams that could finally come true, now that her brother has purchased a Scottish castle. The trek from England was exhausting, but it will all be worth it once she can get past the brawny Highlander and into her castle... And ignore the passions that flare between them. It’s a battle of wills, but Evelyn and Grey aren’t the only ones with their sights set on Finlarig. As secrets are revealed and muskets are lit, the fate of the Campbell Clan, Evelyn’s hard-fought plan, and the possible future between this Sassenach and Highlander are in as much jeopardy as their lives. Each book in The Campbells series is STANDALONE: * The Scottish Rogue * The Savage Highlander * The Wicked Viscount * The Highland Outlaw

Book A History of Clan Campbell  From origins to Flodden

Download or read book A History of Clan Campbell From origins to Flodden written by Alastair Campbell Campbell of Airds and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scottish Surnames of Colonial America

Download or read book The Scottish Surnames of Colonial America written by David Dobson and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2003 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Dobson has combed through private papers, as well as extracted data from the contemporary journal, the "Scots Magazine," and the newspaper, the "Aberdeen Journal." Dobson's transcriptions identify many of the Scots who took part in the conflict and portray the Scottish vantage point on the war itself. In all, the index to this book of genealogical and historical importance refers to about 2,000 Scotsmen who either took part in the conflict or provided commentary about it.

Book Clan Donald

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  • Author : Donald J. Macdonald
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing
  • Release : 2008-01-18
  • ISBN : 9781455602339
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book Clan Donald written by Donald J. Macdonald and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-18 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a detailed history of this Scottish noble lineage from the medieval Lords of the Isles to the mid–eighteenth century. Clan Donald is not the history of one clan, but of several important clans that descend from the old Kingdom of Macdonald. Each of these clans played its part in the history of Scotland until the fateful Battle of Culloden in 1746. Covering a period of six hundred years, the narrative begins with Somerled and the foundation of the Lordship of the Isles. It traces the narrative through the downfall of the Lordship in 1493 and the various branches that arose thereafter. The book then culminates in an overview of how the Celtic and Roman Churches were influenced by Clan Donald. Based on the original, three-volume edition of Clan Donald—first published between 1896 and 1904—this all-encompassing reference book is essential for members of the Clan as well as students of the Western Highlands and Isles.

Book Account of the Clan Iver

Download or read book Account of the Clan Iver written by Peter Colin Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Clan Campbell  From Flodden to the Revolution

Download or read book A History of Clan Campbell From Flodden to the Revolution written by Alastair Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: