What the records say
- When
- 1 Jun 1679
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 55.63° N, 4.18° W
- Description
- 1679 battle of the Scottish Covenanter Wars
Battle of Drumclog
Battle of the Covenanter rebellion of 1679
The Battle of Drumclog was fought on 1 June 1679 during the Covenanter rebellion of 1679. Rebel Covenanters defeated a Scots Army force under John Graham of Claverhouse at Drumclog, South Lanarkshire.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Drumclog: A group of 200 Scottish Covenanters overwhelm a small Scottish Army unit, that had been pursuing them for the murder of Archbishop Sharp”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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