Battle of Rhunahaorine Moss
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| Battle of Rhunahaorine Moss | |||||||
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| Part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Scottish Royalists |
 Covenanters | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Alasdair MacColla | David Leslie | ||||||
  Rhunahaorine Point Scotland | |||||||
The Battle of Rhunahaorine Moss was a battle between Covenanters led by General David Leslie and Royalist forces led by Alasdair Mac Colla Chiotaich (Sir Alexander MacDonald) at Rhunahaorine Point, Kintyre, Scotland on 24 May 1647. The Covenanters defeated the Royalists.[1]
Largie Castle at Rhunahaorine, home of the MacDonalds of Largie, was razed by the forces of General David Leslie.[2]
Citations
References
- "Ronachan Places". 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2009.
- "Scottish Battles List by Region, Scotland - UK History". 2009. Retrieved 6 July 2009.
Further reading
- McAlister, Lynn (2015). "Later 17th Century". Macalister History Timeline. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
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