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Massacre of Glencoe: Last act of the Highland War
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Scottish History
In the early hours of 13 February 1692, Scottish government soldiers under the command of Captain Robert Campbell of Glenlyon fell upon their hosts, the Macdonalds of Glencoe. In the so-called Glorious Revolution of 1688, the Catholic King James VII of Scotland and II of England was deposed by his Protestant son-in-law, William of Orange and his wife Mary (James’s Protestant daughter). He had been invited to England by a group of lords fearful of a Catholic absolute monarchy and the spectre of a succession of popish monarchs following the birth of James’s son, James Francis Edward Stuart, on 10 June 1688.