ROBERT DUNCANSON


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Robert Duncanson

You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and put all to the sword under seventy …. This by the King’s special command, for the good and safety of the country, that these miscreants be cut off root and branch.
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Campbell carried out the order although many MacDonalds escaped in the highlands. The particular massacre has always taken on an even greater infamy because the Campbell murderers had been given food and hospitality by the MacDonalds. This began the most bitter of the Scottish clan feuds that persists into modern times.

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Robert Duncanson
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Robert Duncanson, 1658 to May 1705, was a Scottish professional soldier from Inveraray; a retainer of the Earl of Argyll, he began his career during the 1685 Argyll's Rising, and is now best remembered for his involvement in the February 1692 Glencoe massacre.