Martin Antonenko
A Fixture
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A simple delay causes a massacre on February 13, 1692!
After the bloodily crushed Jacobite uprising against the English, the defeated Scottish clan chiefs became an oath to the English King Wilhelm III. of Orange ...
... forced until January 1, 1692 at the latest.
Clan chief McIan MacDonald, 12th chief of Glencoe ...
...waits until the last day before he sets out to take the oath. On December 31, 1691, he traveled to Fort William and asked Commander Colonel Hill if he could take the oath.
Hill tells him that he is not responsible for taking the oath and that MacDonald must quickly travel to Inveraray. There he could take the oath to Sir Colin Campbell ...
... the sheriff of Argyll.
MacDonald takes three days to Inveraray, not least because of the winter travel conditions.
Sir Colin Campbell is absent when he arrives and MacDonald has to wait three more days. Then Sir Campbell takes the oath.
Six days too late!
The king is furious and orders - immediately seconded by other Scottish clan chiefs, whom the MacDonalds have become too powerful - to the immediate death of all members of the MacDonald clan!
In the subsequent blood orgy of 13. February, which went down in history as the "Glencoe Massacre", 30 male clan members are immediately slaughtered!
Another 40 women and children die shortly after their husbands, fathers and brothers in their burning houses, which are set alight by order of the king ...:
Incidentally, the murderers were not English, but hired Scots - and even close relatives of the murdered, as this memorial stone shows ...:
Cheers
After the bloodily crushed Jacobite uprising against the English, the defeated Scottish clan chiefs became an oath to the English King Wilhelm III. of Orange ...
... forced until January 1, 1692 at the latest.
Clan chief McIan MacDonald, 12th chief of Glencoe ...
...waits until the last day before he sets out to take the oath. On December 31, 1691, he traveled to Fort William and asked Commander Colonel Hill if he could take the oath.
Hill tells him that he is not responsible for taking the oath and that MacDonald must quickly travel to Inveraray. There he could take the oath to Sir Colin Campbell ...
... the sheriff of Argyll.
MacDonald takes three days to Inveraray, not least because of the winter travel conditions.
Sir Colin Campbell is absent when he arrives and MacDonald has to wait three more days. Then Sir Campbell takes the oath.
Six days too late!
The king is furious and orders - immediately seconded by other Scottish clan chiefs, whom the MacDonalds have become too powerful - to the immediate death of all members of the MacDonald clan!
In the subsequent blood orgy of 13. February, which went down in history as the "Glencoe Massacre", 30 male clan members are immediately slaughtered!
Another 40 women and children die shortly after their husbands, fathers and brothers in their burning houses, which are set alight by order of the king ...:
Incidentally, the murderers were not English, but hired Scots - and even close relatives of the murdered, as this memorial stone shows ...:
Cheers
