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  Battle of Philiphaugh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Battle of Philiphaugh was fought on September 13th, 1645 during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and took place outside the town of Philiphaugh near Selkirk in Scotland between the armies of the Royalist Marquis of Montrose, and the Parliamentarian General Leslie.
In 1645 Leslie defeated the Earl of Montrose at Philiphaugh (September, 1645) and in 1647 became Lieutenant General of the Scots army.
The downfall of the Marquis however came at the battle of Philiphauge, which was fought on the plain facing the north side of the Ettrick on September 13th, 1645.
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  Battle of Philiphaugh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Battle of Philiphaugh was fought on September 13th, 1645 during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and took place outside the town of Philiphaugh near Selkirk in Scotland between the armies of the Royalist Marquis of Montrose, and the Covenanter army of General Leslie.
In 1645 Leslie defeated the Earl of Montrose at Philiphaugh (September, 1645) and in 1647 became Lieutenant General of the Scots army.
The downfall of the Marquis however came at the battle of Philiphauge, which was fought on the plain facing the north side of the Ettrick on September 13th, 1645.
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 Battle of the Boyne -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The battle represented the culmination of James's attempt to regain the thrones of England and Scotland, but is remembered (wrongly) as a decisive moment in the struggle between (An adherent of Protestantism) Protestant and (A member of a Catholic church) Catholic factions.
The battle itself was fought on July 1st over a ford of the Boyne at Oldbridge, near (In 1649 the place was captured by Oliver Cromwell, who massacred the Catholic inhabitants) Drogheda.
The casualty figure of the battle was quite low for a battle of such a scale — of the 50,000 or so participants, about 2,000 died — three quarters of whom were Jacobites.
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 Ogilvy - LoveToKnow 1911
A loyal partisan of the king, he joined Montrose in Scotland in 1644 and was one of the royalist leaders at the battle of Kilsyth.
He was again a prisoner after the battle of Philiphaugh and was sentenced to death in 1646, but he escaped from his captivity at St Andrews and was afterwards pardoned.
Serving with the Scots against Cromwell he became a prisoner for the third time in 1651, and was in the Tower of London during most of the years of the Commonwealth.
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 History
Battle with the Clan Ruthven 1544, In 1544 the Ruthvens who held considerable sway over Perth from their nearby Castle Huntingtower, often disputed the authority of the Clan Charteris, which led to a bitter and bloody feud.
It was at the Battle of Tillieangus that the 6th Lord Forbes's youngest son known as Black Aurther Forbes was killed.
This battle was the largest battle of the English and Scottish Civil War, and one of the most decisive.
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 Battle of Philiphaugh - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The battle of Philiphauge was fought on the 13th May, 1645 during the English civil wars and took place outside the town of Philiphaugh near Selkirk in Scotland between the armies of the Royalist Marquis of Montrose, and the Parliamentarian General Leslie.
By 1642 Montrose was already popular amongst his people and was ready to break with the Coventers and in 1643 was with Charles I in Oxford to return the same year to fight for the King in Scotland.
The downfall of the Marquis however came at the battle of Philiphauge, which had been fought on the plain facing the north side of the Ettrick on the 13th May, 1645.
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 Probert Encyclopaedia: Battles (1600-1699)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Battle of Beachy Head was an English naval defeat in the Channel on the 30th of June 1690 by a French force sailing to London in support of a proposed Jacobite rebellion.
The Battle of Killiecrankie was an overwhelming defeat of Government forces by Jacobite Highlanders under the command of Graham of Claverhouse, known as 'Bonnie Dundee', in 1689 at a gorge near the village of Killiecrankie in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.
The Battle of Philiphaugh took place on September the 13th 1645 and was a victory for Sir David Leslie over the Royalists under the Marquis of Montrose.
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 List of battles 1401-1800
Battle of Grunwald or Battle of Zalgiris) July 15 Poles and Lithuanians defeat Teutonic Knights
1428 Battle of Orleans English forces commanded by the Earl of Salisbury with duke of Bedford besiege French city and are driven off with the loss of their siege engines by Joan.
1600 Battle of Nieuwpoort June 2 Battle between Dutch (led by Prince Mauritz) and Spanish army, led by Albrecht, archduke of Austria.
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 Earls of Middleton - LoveToKnow 1911
both in England and in Scotland, being especially prominent at the battle of Philiphaugh and in other operations against the great Montrose.
He held a high command in the Scottish army which marched to rescue the king in 1648, and he was taken prisoner after the battle of Preston.
He was a captive for the second time after the battle of Worcester, where he commanded the Royalist cavalry, but he escaped from the Tower of London to Paris.
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 David Leslie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Leslie was second in command of the Scottish armies who were sent to fight for the English Parliament from 1644 and had won the day at the critical Battle of Marston Moor, west of York, for a wounded Oliver Cromwell, leading a cavalry charge that defeated the Royalist Cavaliers.
He routed the main Royalist force under the Marquis of Montrose at the battle of Philiphaugh and afterwards mopped up the remaining Royalists in Kyntyre in the west of Scotland.
By refusing battle, Leslie withstood a siege at Edinburgh and when the English were forced to retreat in August 1650 he pursued them down the east coast, eventually trapping 11,000 English soldiers south of Dunbar with an army of 23,000 Scottish.
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1541—1606), a son of James Ogilvy, master of Ogilvy, who was killed at the battle of Pinkie in 1547, took a leading part in Scottish politics during the reigns of Mary and of James VI.
He was again a prisoner after the battle of Philiphaugh and was sentenced to death in 1646, but he escaped from his captivity at St Andrews and was after-wards pardoned.
Serving with the Scots against Cromwell he became a prisoner for the third time in 165r, and was in the Tower of London during most of the years of the Commonwealth.
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 Skyelander's COMPLETE Scottish History Timeline
Battle of Alnwick - King Malcolm III or Canmore is killed during battle on the 13 November.
Battle of Falkirk(I), William Wallace and his army of 12,000 are defeated by Edward I of England and his army of 2,500 Heavy horse and about 20,000 foot.
At the Battle of Solway Moss, the Scots are routed.
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 Scottish battles
A two-ship sea battle in a north coast sea loch led to Jacobites being forced ashore and captured.
Near Roy Bridge, Roy Hill at the foot of Glen Roy was the scene of the last battle in Scotland to be fought with bows and arrows, between the MacDonnells of Keppoch and the MacIntoshes.
The famous “Fairy Flag” of the Macleods was involved in this battle in the Waternish peninsula of Skye.
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The Battle of Caldera Bay occurred during the civil war in Chile in 1891 and was fought between the Congressionalist ironclad Blanco Encalada and the Balmacedist torpedo gunboats Almirante Lynch and Almirante Condell who torpedoed the ironclad amidships and sank her in two minutes.
The Battle of Culloden was a defeat in 1746 of the Jacobite rebel army of the British prince Charles Edward Stuart (the 'Young Pretender') by the Duke of Cumberland on a stretch of moorland in Inverness‑shire, Scotland.
The Battle of Navas de Tolosa was fought in 1212 between Yakub Almansur of the Almohades and the kings of Aragon, Castile and Navarre.
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 CalendarHome.com - 1645 - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
February 2 - Covenanters are defeated by Montrose at the Battle of Inverlochy.
June 14 - English Civil War: Battle of Naseby - 12,000 Royalist forces are beaten by 15,000 Parliamentarian soldiers.
September 13 - Covenanters defeat Montrose at the Battle of Philiphaugh, Selkirk.
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 Battle of Philiphaugh, 13 September 1645 (Scotland)
Civil War Battle that ended the earl of Montrose's otherwise successful Scottish campaign of 1645.
Covered by fog, Leslie was able to surprise Montrose's camp at Philiphaugh, and the overwhelmed Irish were soon forced to surrender.
After the battle, the churchmen with Leslie protested against the quarter he had granted the Irish, and forced him to commit an atrocity, first massacring the 300 women and children with the army, and then killing the captured soldiers.
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 OGILVY (FAMILY) - LoveToKnow Article on OGILVY (FAMILY)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
A loyal partisan of the king, he joined Montrose in Scotland in 1644 and was one of the royalist leaders at the battle of Kilsyth.
He was again a prisoner after the battle of Philiphaugh and was sentenced to death in 1646, but he escaped from his captivity at St Andrews and was afterwards pardoned.
Serving with the Scots against Cromwell he became a prisoner for the third time in 1651, and was in the Tower of London during most of the years of the Commonwealth.
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In 1644, the Scots invade England in the Battle of Timermuir.
In 1645, the Battle of Philiphaugh and the Battle at Auldearn were fought, the former resulting in the defeat of Montrose.
In 1650, Montrose was executed and the English and Scottish clashed at the Battle of Dunbar and the Battle of Ivercarron.
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The battle was fought on the 28th November, 1666; a day still observed by the scattered remnant of the Cameronian sect, who regularly hear a field-preaching upon the field of battle.
During the battle of Pentland-hills Paton of Meadowhead conceived he saw the balls hop harmlessly down from General Dalziel's boots, and, to counteract the spell, loaded his pistol with a piece of silver coin.
Lucky it was for the insurgents that the battle did not happen a day later, when old General Dalziel, who divided with Claverhouse the terror and hatred of the whigs, arrived in the camp, with a commission to supersede Monmouth, as commander in chief.
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 David Leslie, 1601-82
At the battle of Marston Moor, Leslie led a brigade of Scottish horse in support of Cromwell's Ironsides on the left wing of the Allied army.
Leslie skillfully manoeuvred to avoid a pitched battle, intending to let sickness and attrition wear down the invaders first but having trapped Cromwell at Dunbar, Leslie threw away his advantage and was decisively defeated.
At the battle of Worcester in September 1651, Leslie kept his cavalry in reserve and took no active part in the battle.
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 OGILVIE, JOHN - LoveToKnow Article on OGILVIE, JOHN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Ogier of romance may be definitely associated with the flight of Gerberga and her children to Lombardy, but it is not -safe to assume that the other scattered references all relate to the same individual.
Color is lent to the theory of his Bavarian origin by the fact that he, with Duke Naimes of Bavaria, led the Bavarian contingent to battle at Roncesvaux.
In the romances of the Carolingian cycle he is, on account of his revolt against Charlemagne, placed in the family of Doon de Mayence, being the son of Gaufrey de " Dannemarche." The Enfances Ogier of Adenes le Rois, and the Chevalerie Ogier de Dannemarche of Raimbert de Paris, are doubtless based on earlier chansons.
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 Hepburn+O'Neill Family History - Scottish Covenanters
However, the Scottish Royalists were ultimately defeated in September 1645, at the Battle of Philiphaugh, near Selkirk.
The disaster at Philiphaugh was largely due to their own disunity and the return of the main Covenanter armies from England.
In the weeks before the battle the Covenanters spent more time arguing among themselves than preparing for the inevitable counter-stroke, which did much to contribute towards their downfall.
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 Business Software Review : Article 'Battle of Ramillies'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Battle of Ramillies was a major battle in the War of Spanish Succession, May 23, 1706.
The consequent Battle of Ramillies (1706) was a crushing defeat for the French, and resulted in Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, all of Flanders and Hainaut falling into Marlborough's hands.
In 1704 she was renamed Ramillies in honour of the victory of John Churchill in the battle of Ramillies.
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 UK Battlefields Resource Centre - The Civil Wars - The Battle of Battle of Philiphaugh
» Battle of Stow on the Wold - 1646
On the morning of the 13th September, at Philiphaugh, the battle hardened forces of this Covenanter army won the decisive action of the Civil War in Scotland.
Never again would he muster enough troops to be able to face the Covenanters in open battle.
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 The Marquess of Montrose and the Battle of Philiphaugh, 1645, History of Selkirk Scotland
The Marquess of Montrose and the Battle of Philiphaugh, 1645, History of Selkirk Scotland
Although more than 350 years have passed since the Battle of Philiphaugh (1645), it is still possible to study in detail the events which took place about the time of the disaster that crushed the cause of the King in Scotland.
When he arrived in Selkirk on the eve of the battle, Montrose with some of his officers, secured lodging in the town, Montrose in a house in Selkirk's West Port.
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 Battle Index
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