What the records say
- When
- Jul 1544
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 57.03° N, 4.82° W
- Description
- battle in Highland, Scotland, UK
Battle of the Shirts
1544 Scottish clan battle in the Great Glen
The Battle of the Shirts was a Scottish clan battle that took place in 1544 in the Great Glen, at the northern end of Loch Lochy. The Clan Macdonald of Clanranald and their allies the Clan Cameron fought the Clan Fraser and men from Clan Grant. The battlefield has been included and protected by Historic Scotland in their Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of the Shirts: The Clan Fraser of Lovat and Macdonalds of Clan Ranald fight over a disputed chiefship in Scotland; reportedly”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page