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Lady of the Glen: A Novel of 17th-Century Scotland and the Massacre of Glencoe is a 1996 historical fiction novel by American author Jennifer Roberson. It is a re-telling of the 1692 Massacre of Glencoe , and focuses on the romance between Catriona of Clan Campbell and Alasdair Og MacDonald of Clan Donald , each from rival clans.
In his subsequent appeal for compensation, Campbell showed he clearly believed the Glengarry men to be the more culpable, making no mention of Glencoe. In a final effort to support his wife and family, Robert Campbell, at the age of fifty nine, joined the Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot and came to play his part in the Glencoe massacre.
The two other works were The Highland Clearances (1963) and Glencoe (1966). Glencoe was a study of the causes and effects of the Glencoe massacre in 1692, when government soldiers and members of the Campbell Clan attacked and killed members of Clan Donald who lived in Glencoe, a remote glen in the west highlands of Scotland. The book focuses on ...
This is remembered in the stories which the Glencoe people told for another hundred and fifty years. Confused and contradictory though the legends became, they do record the truth that some of the Argyll men were revolted by the orders given them, and that within the oath of obedience they had taken they attempted to warn the people. . . .
The Battle of Talana Hill, also known as the Battle of Glencoe, was the first major clash of the Second Boer War. A frontal attack by British infantry supported by artillery drove Boers from a hilltop position, but the British suffered heavy casualties in the process, including their commanding general Sir William Penn Symons .
And Their Children After Them (ISBN 9780394577661; subtitled The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South), written by Dale Maharidge, photographed by Michael Williamson, and published by Pantheon Books in 1989, won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. [1]
Glencoe is a 1947 narrative poem by Douglas Stewart about the Massacre of Glencoe. In sixteen parts, it ranks among Stewart's best known works. In sixteen parts, it ranks among Stewart's best known works.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography By James Terry White, online at Google Books: Volume 2, published 1895. John Adams is in Volume 2, page 1. Volume 3, published 1893. Volume 4, published 1897. Ulysses S. Grant is in Volume 4, page 1. Volume 5, published 1894. Volume 8, published 1900. Volume 9, published 1899. Volume 10, published ...