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	Battle of Harlaw Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Battles may be small scale, only involving a handful of individuals, perhaps two squads, up to battles on army levels where hundreds of thousands may be engaged in a single battle at one time.
		A "battle of encirclement" — the ''Kesselschlacht'' of the German ''Blitzkrieg'' — surrounds the enemy in a salients, re-entrants and pocketspocket.
		A "decisive battle" is one of particular importance; by bringing hostilities to an end, such as the Battle of Hastings, or as a turning point in the fortunes of the belligerents, such as the Battle of Stalingrad.
	www.echostatic.com /Battle_of_Harlaw.html (1285 words)

	Battle of Harlaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Harlaw was fought near Inverurie in Aberdeenshire on 24 July 1411.
		The battle had been the result of the attempts by the Lord of the Isles to pursue his claim to the Earldom of Ross.
		William Mackay, Battle of Harlaw : its true place in history (Inverness : Northern Chronicle, 1922); Anon., Two old historical Scots poems, giving an account of the battles of Harlaw, and the Reid-Squair (Glasgow, 1748); Charles Dawson, Don poem,...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Battle_of_Harlaw (430 words)

	The Battle of Harlaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		THE BATTLE OF Donald Dubh, XI Captain and Chief of Clan Cameron, rose in support of Donald, 2nd Lord of the Isles in his rebellion of 1411.
		Arriving at Harlaw, which was flat moor edging up to the rise of the hill, the Highlanders met those who had come to guard the entrance to the low country.
		The Battle of Harlaw ("Red Harlaw") is remembered as being a particularly bloody affair.
	www.clan-cameron.org /battles/1411.html (304 words)

	Harlawmain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		A century after it was fought, the Battle of Harlaw was still being re-enacted by youngsters at play, such was its effect on the psyche of the Scottish nation.
		The Battle of Harlaw took place near the junction where the waters of the Ury river flow into the much larger River Don, not far from the small village of Harlaw itself, which lies about 20 miles north west of Aberdeen.
		Harlaw was a major battle by even the bloody standards of the time.
	www.clandavidsonusa.com /harlaw.htm (861 words)

	List of battles 1401-1800 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Battle of Tannenberg) on July 15 Polish and Lithuanian army under Wladislaus II of Poland break the spine of the Teutonic Knights under Ulrich von Jungingen
		1421 Battle of Bauge The French and Scottish forces of Charles VII commanded by the Earl of Buchan defeat the forces of Henry V commanded by the Duke of Clarence.
		1600 Battle of Nieuwpoort June 2 Battle between Dutch (led by Prince Maurits) and Spanish army, led by Albrecht, archduke of Austria.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_battles_1401-1800 (4839 words)

	Battles
		Known as the Battle of Nechtansmere, this was a decisive victory for the Picts over the Angles of Northumbria, who had forcibly occupied the southern part of Pictland for the previous thirty years and who, after their defeat, were never again a power in lands north of the Forth.
		Though militarily inconclusive, the battle ended in the withdrawal westward of Donald and his allies, with the result that Buchan held the disputed Earldom of Ross until his death in 1424, when it was resumed by the Crown.
		For the Scots the battle was a disaster.
	www.fortunecity.com /bally/leitrim/147/battles.html (7893 words)

	NOTABLE DATES IN HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Battle of Stirling Bridge where the Scots under the command of William Wallace and Andrew de Moray defeated a larger English force under John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey, and the Treasurer of England, Hugh de Cressingham.
		Battle of Harlaw, Inverurie, where the Crown forces under the Earl of Mar faced a Highland Host led by Donald Lord of the Isles.
		Battle of Bothwell, defeat of the Covenanters under Balfour of Burleigh and Hackson of Rathillet, by Royal Troops led by the Duke of Monmouth.
	www.burkes-peerage.net /sites/scotland/esnews/es1101.asp (6374 words)

	BBC - History - The Battle of Otterburn 1388 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The battle continued by moonlight and the Scottish leader, Douglas, was mortally wounded.
		He was worried that his death would encourage the English, so he told his men to hide his body beneath a bush so nobody could see it.
		When he offered to capitulate, he was directed surrender to the bush under which Douglas was lying and so the battle became famous because it was won by a dead man.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/scotland/battle_otterburn.shtml (163 words)

	Historic Scottish Battles - From Rampant Scotland
		The army of Prince Charles Edward Stewart, consisting mainly of Highlanders, was soundly defeated by the Duke of Cumberland, bringing to an end the ambitions of the "Young Pretender" to recover the throne for the Stewart dynasty.
		With the defeat of King James VII at the Battle of the Boyne in Northern Ireland the following year, Dunkeld was the last battle in Scotland in the 17th century to restore the Stewarts to the throne.
		The Marquis of Montrose, after his success at the Battle of Tippermuir (see below), was being pursued by a Covenanting force led by the Marquis of Argyll and his Campbell clan (though a General Baillie also though he was in command and the two men could not stand the sight of one another!).
	www.rampantscotland.com /features/battles.htm (3250 words)

	Battle of Harlaw -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Battle of Harlaw was fought near (Click link for more info and facts about Inverurie) Inverurie in (Click link for more info and facts about Aberdeenshire) Aberdeenshire on 24 July, 1411.
		William Mackay, Battle of Harlaw : its true place in history (Inverness : Northern Chronicle, 1922); Anon., Two old historical Scots poems, giving an account of the battles of Harlaw, and the Reid-Squair (Glasgow, 1748); Charles Dawson, Don poem,...
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/battle_of_harlaw.htm (518 words)

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		Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg), MD, 17th Sept 1862.
		Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent was the
		died for the cause 1644 at Battle of Justice Mills.
	www.compapp.dcu.ie /cgi-bin/humphrys/history-search/search?q=battle+of (225 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		This battle became known as the "Clan Battle of 1396" which took place on the North Inch of Perth in 1396.
		This battle, regarded by many today as the conflict between Highlanders and Lowlanders which killed the expansion of Gaelic influence, was one of the most brutal in Scottish history, becoming known as "Red Harlaw".
		As a matter of fact, history shows them to have had a chief at the battle of Invernahaven, and by all the laws of Highland genealogy the clansmen were fully entitled to meet and confirm the claim of their present leader and head.
	www.clandavidsonusa.com /history.htm (2088 words)

	Battle of Harlaw, The [Child 163] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Jeannie Robertson, "The Battle of Harlaw" (on FSBBAL2) {Bronson's #14}
		Simpson argues that Mar garrisoned Harlaw and assigned the Forbeses, strong vassals situated in the area, to guard Rhynie.
		Most texts of "Harlaw" are from Aberdeenshire; they could be close together simply because many singers knew the song and could compare their texts.
	www.csufresno.edu /folklore/ballads/C163.html (450 words)

	Folk-lore of the North-East of Scotland: Chapter XIX. Place Names and Family Characteristics
		N the ballad of 'The Battle of Harlaw,' the burgh of Aberdeen is styled "brave":--
		The laird of Auchindoun, in the ballad of 'The Battle of Benrinnes, is alluded to thus:--
		The Hays are styled "the handsome." The character given to the Earl of Erroll in the ballad of 'The Battle of Benrinnes' is "noble" and "gude":--
	www.sacred-texts.com /neu/celt/nes/nes22.htm (1005 words)

	List of battles 1401-1800 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		1402 July 28 Battle of Angora or Battle of Ankara Timur Lenk defeats and captures Ottoman sultan Bayezid I in Anatolia
		1514 Battle of Orsha September 8 Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeated the mighty army of Muscovy.
		1515 Battle of Marignan September 13 Francis I defeats the Swiss.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/List-of-battles-1401-1800.htm (4262 words)

	Encyclopedia: Battle of Harlaw
		The Scottish Highlands are considered to be the mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault.
		Francis James Child (February 1, 1825 - September 11, 1896), was an American scholar and educationist, and collector of what came to be known as the Child Ballads.
		Stirling Castle has stood for centuries atop a volcanic crag defending the lowest ford of the River Forth.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Harlaw (764 words)

	The Incised Effigial Stone at Foveran, Aberdeenshire
		Donald claimed the Earldom of Ross by right of his wife and was determined to assert his title by force of arms against the counterclaim of the regent, the Duke of Albany, on behalf of his son, John, Earl of Buchan.
		One of the knights who were killed in the battle of Harlaw was, almost certainly, Gilbert of Grenlau (Greenlaw).
		Greenlaw is buried at Kinkell church, just the other side of Inverurie, and his tombstone, depicting the knight in his full harness of plate and mail and wearing a sword typical of the type associated with the Highlands (angled quillons with spoon-shaped terminals, prominent langet) is justly well known and widely published.
	ejmas.com /jwma/articles/2000/melville/melville_2.htm (3033 words)

	Gathering of the Clans - Devoted To All Things Scottish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Duthac was later killed in 1411 at the battle of Harlaw...
		The next year, he was sent to England to negotiate for the release of the Chancellor of Scotland, Earl of Huntly, who had been captured at the battle of Pinkie.
		He may also have been the first Carnegie to claim that his ancestors were cup bearers to the kings of Scots.
	www.tartans.com /print.php?sid=162 (461 words)

	The Battle of Harlaw
		Wi' a dree dree dradie drumtie dree A dree dree drumtie dra.
		The resulting battle was not technically decisive; both armies survived but MacDonald, having suffered somewhat more casualties, gave up his attack on Aberdeen.
		There is a record of a piece called 'The Battle of Hayrlau' from 1549, but that may not be the same as this ballad.
	www.alansim.com /scohtml/sco035.html (763 words)

	battle of Harlaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Battle of Harlaw in 1411 is sometimes called "Red Harlaw," because it was one of the main conflicts between the Highlanders and Lowlanders, and because it was one of the bloodiest battles in Scottish history.
		While James I was in England growing up under house arrest, Donald, the Lord of the Isles, was planning a way to secure the earldom of Ross' estates before the Stewarts of Albany could do so.
		He brought his army west into Inverness over the River Spey, where it was intercepted two miles from Harlaw by Keiths, Forbes, Leslies, and Irvines, led by the Earl of Mar. Donald's men eventually withdrew, and the battle is generally viewed as a draw.
	web.pdx.edu /~bettiet/harlaw.htm (116 words)

	The Battle of Harlaw
		The Battle of Harlaw was an actual event that happened in the year 1411 and I think (based on history books I've read) this whole melee began over, of all things, a woman's dowry and worldly possessions which she selflessly gave up to enter a convent to become a nun.
		Well the battle waned on for three days and had the MacDonalds and MacLeans been successful it would have given them even greater power and control over the Highlands and this very well would have radically changed the course of British history...
		Instead this battle, one of the bloodiest in Scottish History (and I dare say there were many--all grizzly) wound up in a draw and by the time it was over, the blood of many thousand dead men now stained the clay.
	www.standrewsri.org /transcriptions/battleofharlaw.html (1190 words)

	:::: Clan Cleary - Celtic Heritage - Music (Ceol)::::
		Harp music was often used in a "Brosnachadh Catha" or "Incitement to Battle" before the warriors left their lord's castle on a foray, as is recorded in the MacDonald Clan before the Battle of Harlaw in 1411 in Scotland, but once in the field, the pipes were the only suitable instrument to use.
		The pipes are recorded as being used by the Gaelic Irish at the Battle of the Yellow Ford, where they were also victorious and at Kinsale, where they were defeated.
		Both King James and King William's armies were led into battle to the skirl of the pipes in the War of the two Kings, after which the Jacobite pipers joined the Irish Brigade in France where they were being played in 1745 at the Battle of Fontenoy.
	www.clancleary.com /html/ceol.htm (438 words)

	Clan Gunn or Gunn Clann of Scotland, the highlands and Clan Gunn History
		This le mes out much of the background of the battle (though in fact the background given in the song was largely inaccurate).
		The battle of "Red" Harlaw was fought on July 24, 1411.
		The resulting battle was not technically decisive; both armies survived.
	www.gunnclan.net /midi/harlaw.htm (344 words)

	Lyr Req: Battle of Harlaw (#16, Jeannie Robertson) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		But a comparative study of the balladry of war shows that it is exactly this violent and often fact-denying partisanship which is characteristic of it.
		The song about the battle fought on the Haughs of Cromdale was similarly re-written to make it a Jacobite victory.
		Buchan also speculates that Laing found (and published, but only in abbreviated form) a genuine survival of the original ballad and (as was his habit, though we don't know that it happened in this case) printed it on songsheets which then circulated through the region, giving rise to all subsequently recovered examples.
	ragtime.mudcat.org /thread.cfm?threadid=85506&messages=5 (1046 words)

	Harlaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The battle of harlaw happened because Euphemia Ross gave up her title as countess of Ross and passed it over to her uncle,John Stewart who was the Earl of Bucham.
		He took this army to Harlaw, near Inverurie,where he fought against the lowlanders and he lost.
		So many lives were lost and so much blood was spilled the battle is sometimes reffereed to as 'Red Harlaw'.
	website.lineone.net /~r.findlay/Harlaw.htm (91 words)

	The Battle of Harlaw
		Child notes, however, that the original ballad has been lost and the most widely known poem of the battle was printed by Ramsay in 1724.
		To establish his claim to the Earldom of Ross, Donald of the Isles invaded the south with ten thousand islanders.
		At Harlaw, eighteen miles northwest of Aberdeen he was met by an army led by Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar and Alexander Ogilby, sheriff of Angus.
	www.contemplator.com /child/harlaw.html (239 words)

	Celtic Historical Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		With a force of 10,000 men of, comprised mainly of the MacLeod, MacDonald and MacLean clans, he attacked the lowlanders army at Harlaw.
		The fight was so severe (the Battle is now known as 'Red Harlaw'), and the victory so important, that certain privileges were granted to the heirs of the fallen lowlanders.
		If Lord Donald had succeeded in defeating this army, the history of Scotland would be a great deal different than the one we know nowadays.
	www.gaelicscottish.co.uk /docs/smenu/harlaw.html (130 words)

	Harlaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The armies met at the small hamlet of Harlaw, close to Inverurie.
		After this battle, the power of the Lords of the Isles lessened, although many more battles in the years ahead saw Highlanders fighting Lowlanders, but mostly in support of the Stewart and Stuart kings.
		It is said that nearly every noble family in the North East of Scotland lost some, if not all, of the men who left their homes to fight with Mar.
	www.fife-education.org.uk /socsub/SocialSubjects/Scottish_History/Royalty/Battles/harlaw.htm (328 words)

	History of the Murdoch Surname
		With their close associations with the Clan Donald, one branch of Murdochs claim to be named after Muiredach O Daly date back through this time to claim (like their Macdonald cousins) descent from the legendary Conn of the Battles.
		This however is based on the improbable assumption that those with the surname Murdoch derived from an ancient character with that forename.
		1411 In the savage Battle of Harlaw clan Donald fought against the forces of the Duke of Albany.
	www.strathearn.com /clan-murdoch/mu_history3.html (807 words)

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