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website asking I take down the story as it was totally inaccurate. I challenged him to tell me the "real" events. He was unable to deny the clans involvement in the end but insisted it was strictly a military maneuver, that it wasn't a personal bloodfeud and it was very long ago. I suppose the fact it was a military operation to annihilate innocent civlians under direct orders from a British king is alright by some. But not to this author - never. I will continue to write the truth of Scottish history and sometimes that includes the ugly facts such as Glencoe.

 

This conclusion is supported by a quote from Scottish historian and Author, James Hunter, who recently said:

"What particularly distinguishes this act from others, and why it resonates today, was the absolute betrayal of the [tradition of] Highland hopitality by the Campbell forces. And the other was the hand of the government in it - the government had ordred it. It was a genocidal act."
-- James Hunter, Scottish historian

 

The black treachery of this horrible incident has inspired many songs and stories. I have included one of my favourite Scottish songs -- originally known to this author as the "MacDonald's Lament" or now more commonly known as "Massacre at Glencoe" or "Glencoe".

 

These are the words to the song "Massacre at Glencoe" or sometimes "Glencoe", sum up the way many Scots feel about the horribe deed better than my words ever could. These words are below:

Members of Clan Campbell, under orders from King of England - William of Orange's men, were sent to kill all of a small family of MacDonald's under the age of seventy. No one else was to be spared. The Campbells and allies, carried out this horrific act after spending nearly two weeks living at the modest MacDonald's home in Glencoe.

 

These are the words to a song, immortalizing the black deed that some members, under Robert Campbell of Clan Campbell of Breadlabane, carried out on the helpless MacDonalds. The year was 1692.

 

{ CHORUS }
Oh cruel as the snow that sweeps Glencoe,
and covers the graves o' Donald (Donnell),
Oh cruel was the foe that raped Glencoe,
and murdered the house of MacDonald.

  Repeat Chorus ----

                                                                                                        

They came in a blizzard, we offered them heat,
a roof for their heads, dry shoes for their feet,
we wined them and dined them, they ate all our meat,
and they slept in the house of MacDonald.

Repeat Chorus ----

 

They came from fort William, with murder in mind,
the Campbell had orders, King William had signed,
put all to the sword, these words underlined,
leave no one alive called MacDonald.

                                     Repeat Chorus ----                              (cont)

 

                                      

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