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Coire nan Lochan, a corrie of Bidean nam Bian on the southern side of Glen Coe Glencoe by Hugh William Williams, c. 1825–1829. The glen is U-shaped, formed by an ice age glacier, [9] about 12.5 kilometres (7 + 3 ⁄ 4 mi) long with the floor of the glen being less than 700 metres (3 ⁄ 8 mi) wide, narrowing sharply at the "Pass of Glen Coe".
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 .
Glencoe then largely disappeared from public knowledge until it was referenced by historian Thomas Macaulay in his 1850 History of England. [40] He sought to exonerate William from every one of Leslie's charges, and is the origin of the claim that the Massacre was simply part of an ongoing feud between the MacDonalds and Clan Campbell .
The Massacre of Glencoe Monument is a memorial to the Massacre of Glencoe (Scottish Gaelic: Mort Ghlinne Comhann), which took place in Glen Coe in the Highlands of Scotland on 13 February 1692, following the Jacobite uprising of 1689–92.
Glencoe was a place name used by Scottish immigrants to name several places in the world. It may also refer to: It may also refer to: Glen Coe , Lochaber, Highland, Scotland
John Prebble, in Glencoe: the story of the massacre, analyzes the significance of the stories of the warnings at Henderson Stone in this way: The Campbells of Argyll’s Regiment were Highland, and the inviolability of hospitality was as sacred to them as to any other clan, murder under trust was as great a sin.
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.
Glencoe Mill Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Glencoe, Alamance County, North Carolina. It encompasses 48 contributing buildings and 6 contributing structures built between 1880 and 1882 in Glencoe.