Publisher's Synopsis
Up and down the glens, the length and breadth of Scotland, harrying, sacking, plundering, winning battle after battle against the Government, ranged James Grahame, Marquis of Montrose, during the fateful years 1644-45. At his side stalked the shadowy Alasdair MacColla, seeming to the Covenanting Government like an avenging fury. MacColla had an agenda of his own - compelling the Campbells to disgorge ancestral MacDonald territories in the west of Scotland - and he revealed himself as the first (and perhaps the last) great Celtic general of modern times.;MacColla ushered in a century (1644-1746) during which the forgotten Gaelic-speaking peoples of Britain and Ireland nearly succeeded in regaining control of their lands and destiny. This book describes the tragic course of events when, despite MacColla's saving the reckless Montrose from himself on several occasions, the alliance fell to pieces, Montrose was defeated at Philiphaugh, and MacColla withdrew from Scotland and was killed in southern Ireland.
