Thats interesting. The battle of Harlaw was fought near Aberdeen in 1411. Child says:

Donald of the Isles, to maintain his claim to the Earldom of Ross, invaded the country south of the mountains with ten thousand islanders and men of Ross in the hope of sacking Aberdeen, and reducing to his power the country as far as the Tay. He was met at Harlaw, eighteen miles nw of Aberdeen, by Alexander Stewart, earl of Mar, and Alexander Ogilvy, sherriff of Angus, with the forces of Mar, Garioch, Angus and The Mearns, and his further progress was stayed. The Celts lost more than nine hundred, the Lowlanders five hundred, including nearly all the gentry of Buchan. This defeat was in the interest of civilization against savagery, and was felt says Burton "as a more memorable deliverance even than Bannockburn". End quote.

Given the date and the participants, references to redcoats would seem highly anachronistic, or am I wrong? Although Child does quote a variant mentioning red-coats--but both of his variants were probably Walter Scott-era compositions.

Either way, the tradition of exaggerated body counts has a precedent here...

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