The Execution of Montrose.(soldier and poet James Graham, Marquess of Montrose)(Brief Article)

May 21st, 1650

JAMES GRAHAM, Marquess of Montrose, soldier, poet one of the most romantic figures in British history, led a campaign of dashing brilliance as Royalist captain general in Scotland against the Covenanters and his bitter personal enemy, the Marquess of Argyll, in the summer of 1645. With a small swift-moving force of Highlanders and Irish, he ran audacious rings round his opponents until September, when he was finally pinned down and defeated by superior numbers at Philiphaugh in the Borders.

Montrose escaped to the Continent, but he was a man of action who ...

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