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Thread #44678   Message #658007
Posted By: GUEST,Boab
26-Feb-02 - 02:12 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Cold is the snow that lay in Glencoe
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Cold is the snow that lay in Glen Coe
Ah, George Seto---so you are from British Columbia! :-) Aye, the bitterness still can be encountered. But I don't think I'd go to the length of hiding my name, were I a Campbell. I'd say 95% of Campbells and MacDonalds hardly give a toss about the old feud nowadays. More than Campbells were involved in the massacre anyway. The force involved was a detachment of a protestant regiment---self-evident, since they were anti-jacobite. And it is strongly suspected that many of the "Argylls" tipped off some of the families they were ordered to destroy, otherwise the slaughter would have been much worse. The death toll was I believe 35. Now, if there had been a song about the fight between the Armstrongs and the Johnstons at Drife Sands; the Armstrongs lost 400 dead on their side alone! [Just some perspective---] Boab