| |
| | DO WELL AND LET THEM SAY: GORDON (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | His son, Sir John Gordon, was butchered by a bungling executioner at the Cross of Aberdeen, while Mary was compelled by her brother to look on at the horrid end of the man whom, it is said, she had once dearly loved. |
 | | During the Rising of 1715, while Marquess of Huntly, he joined the forces of the Earl of Mar at Perth with two thousand three hundred men, and he was present at the battle of Sheriffmuir; but he received pardon and succeeded to the Dukedom in 1716. |
 | | As Marquess of Huntly he had a distinguished military career, commanding the regiment now known as the Gordon Highlanders, in Spain, Corsica, Ireland, and Holland, where he was severely wounded, and commanding a division in the Waicheren expedition of 1809. |
| www.houseofgordon.com /HISTORY.html (5242 words) |
|