24 июн 1647 г. - Dunaverty Massacre
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After a recent battle many fled to Dunaverty to be transported to Ireland as well as Dunyvaig Castle. About 200–300 men who could not be transported or did not wish to leave Scotland prepared to defend the castle.
When the Covenanter Army arrived, they laid siege to the castle and made small raids against the forces inside. Once the attackers had captured the stronghold's water supply, the defenders–by now running out of water–requested a surrender on fair terms. After agreeing to surrender and leaving the castle, the men, women and children were put to the sword at the request of Reverend John Naves and Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll. However, a number of people appear to have survived the massacre, including Flora McCambridge, the infant Ranald MacDonald of Sanda, James Stewart and a MacDougall of Kilmun.The battle and the siege of Dunaverty Castle involved the Covenanter Army under the command of General David Leslie on one side and 200–300 Highland troops under the command of Archibald Og of Sanda on the other.
General David Leslie’s Covenanter army massacred almost every one of their Royalist prisoners after their surrender at Dunaverty castle . More than 300 MacDougalls and followers, men, women and children, were slaughtered at Dunaverty, despite the promised quarter from the Covenanters
* There is a list of 49 MacDougalls and 41 names from Associated families but there is no list of the many others massacred with them. Some accounts say that the MacDougall Chief was the young MacDougall who alone was spared at Dunaverty, but this is probably a case of mistaken identity.
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