description: The author argues that it was in fact MacColla and not Montrose who was the true architect of the year of Victories, and that without his Highland ally, Montrose's blunders would have doomed him to disaster, thus presenting a compelling and radical reappraisal of Scottish history during the crucial years of the 1640s. As MacColla's actions were unwittingly to lead his people and culture to ruin, so his own career ended in chaos when, despite leading his own troops in a victorious charge, an incompetent general led him to defeat and death at Knocknanuss in Ireland.  Superbly written, Highland Warrior is a compelling and dramatic sweep through some of the most eventful years in Scottish history, told in a text both authoritative and highly readable.
language: English
title: Highland warrior: Alasdair MacColla and the civil wars
titlecomplete: Highland warrior: Alasdair MacColla and the civil wars
characters: John MacDonald, Alasdair MacColla, Major General Robert Monro, Lieutenant General William Baillie, Randal MacDonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim, James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly, Angus MacDonald of Glengarry, Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchinbreck, Coll MacGillespie, John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton, Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Sir John Hurry, Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland, Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark, Sir James Turner, Owen Roe O'Neill
genres: 17th Century, History, Ireland, Scotland, English Civil War, Military History, British Literature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 17
places: County Antrim, Northern Ireland, Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Aberdeen, Scotland, The Hebrides, Scotland, Scotland, Argyll, Scotland, Inverlochy, Lochaber, Scotland, Colonsay, Argyll, Scotland, Kilsyth, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Auldearn, Nairn, Scotland
publisher: Saltire Society