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Glencoe
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Village where Glen Coe, a long rugged valley in the Highland region, reaches an inlet of the sea on the west coast of Scotland. It was the scene of one of the most shameful episodes in British history. Clan leaders had been ordered to make their formal submission to *William III and Mary by the last day of 1691, but the local MacDonald chieftain had done so a few days late. The government seized the opportunity of making an example in the Highlands, where dissatisfaction with the change of regime after the *Revolution of 1688 had been strongest. A company of soldiers, mainly Campbells, had been living among the MacDonalds for nearly two weeks when they received orders to massacre their hosts. They began to do so at 5 a.m. on 13 February 1692, killing 38 men, women and children before the rest escaped.
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