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Lochaber's main town of Fort William was governed as a police burgh with a town council from 1875. [29] A local government district called Lochaber was created in 1930, when Scotland's parish councils were abolished.
The Raids on Lochaber and Shiramore (Scottish Gaelic: Bliadhna nan Creach) ("The Year of the Pillaging") [1] took place in the Scottish Highlands between 22 May and 31 August 1746 and were part of the closing operations of the British-Hanoverian Government to bring to an end the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Articles related to Lochaber, a name applied to areas of the Scottish Highlands.Historically, it consisted of the parishes of Kilmallie and Kilmonivaig, as they were before being reduced in extent by the creation of Quoad Sacra parishes in the 19th century; this Lochaber extended from the Northern shore of Loch Leven, a district called Nether Lochaber, to beyond Spean Bridge and Roy Bridge ...
The Lord of Lochaber was a title in the peerage of Scotland. Lochaber , historically consisted of the former parishes of Kilmallie and Kilmonivaig , prior to the reduction of these parishes, extending from the northern shore of Loch Leven to beyond Spean Bridge and Roy Bridge, known as Brae Lochaber.
The Battle of Lochaber was fought in 1429, ... One theory holds that the battle of Lochaber was a defining moment in the early history of the Clan Cameron, at that ...
A subsequent survey of the Treaty line by John Donelson of Virginia in 1771 placed the northern terminus of the line at the mouth of the Kentucky River, substantially west of the Kanawha River, cleaving what is today extreme western Virginia, a wedge of western Virginia and a large part of northeastern Kentucky to Virginia colony, which lands were then part of newly organized trans-Appalachian ...
The Glenfinnan Monument is a Category A listed monument in Glenfinnan, Lochaber, erected in 1814 and dedicated to the Scottish Highlanders who fought in the Jacobite Army during the Jacobite rising of 1745. [1] By 1814, Jacobitism was no longer a political threat to the House of Hanover.
Born a MacKinnon, originally from the Isle of Skye, she had been married to a Cameron of Moy in Lochaber but was later widowed. Gormshuil, which means 'the blue-eyed one' in Gaelic, was known for her supernatural powers and striking beauty. Fishermen and hunters in Lochaber would often seek her blessing.