thumbs up to the Camerons

[Allan Thomson]

The Cameronian's first action as a regiment was at the battle of Dunkeld where they fought the jacobite army recently commanded by Dundee (till he was killed at Killiecrankie) to a standstill. Their 1st Colonel William Clelland was killed and command was taken over by a Munro who was a veteran of the covenant wars and the father of Colonel Munro of Fort William Henry fame.

Whilst there's often moralising about the treatment of Highlanders post rebellions it is important to reflect how Highland hosts were used to suppress the Covenantors and could be equally as capable of the same kind of atrocities later perpetrated upon them post 45.

"You faught like divil's, your only rival's when you were at Dunkeld boys".