Battle of Inverlochy (1645)
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The Battle of Inverlochy occurred on 2 February 1645 during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms when a Royalist force of Highlanders and Confederate Irish troops under the overall command of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, routed and largely destroyed the pursuing forces of Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, who had been encamped under the walls of Inverlochy Castle.
Inverlochy Castle Ben Nevis in the background
The watercourse leading from Glen Buck to the hill of Carn na Larach. Montrose's men passed over this terrain, in winter, on the way to Inverlochy.
Cairn at the place where the MacDonalds stopped chasing and killing the Campbells after the Battle .
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
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James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose was a Scottish nobleman, poet, soldier and later viceroy and captain general of Scotland. Montrose initially joined the Covenanters in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, but subsequently supported King Charles I as the English Civil War developed. From 1644 to 1646, and again in 1650, he fought in the civil war in Scotland on behalf of the King. He is referred to as the Great Montrose.
Portrait by Anthony van Dyck, 1636
Portrait attributed to Willem van Honthorst
Passage Of Montrose's Army Through Glencoe by Sir George Reid, 1876
Montrose in streets of Edinburgh before the day of his hanging