Qualla: Battle of Dalnaspidal https://qualla.com/battle-of-dalnaspidal en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/g/battle-of-dalnaspidal-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Dalnaspidal https://qualla.com/battle-of-dalnaspidal Battle of Dalnaspidal: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-dalnaspidal/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. Drumochter Pass is the highest point on the A9 today, the long climb between Pitlochry and Aviemore where the road and the railway thread together through one of the few practical north-south routes through the central Highlands. The drivers who slow down for the snow gates rarely know that on the evening of 19 July 1654, a Cromwellian general named Thomas Morgan came up this same pass and ended the last Royalist rising in Scotland. The fight was over before it really began. The Royalist horse had wandered ahead of the foot. Morgan's cavalry saw the gap, charged through it, and the infantry, suddenly exposed, broke and ran. It was the closing engagement of a war that had already lasted more than a decade, and it sealed England's grip on Scotland for the rest of the Interregnum.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/g/battle-of-dalnaspidal-wp/gfhg-battle-of-dalnaspidal-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Dalnaspidal: The Glencairn Rising https://qualla.com/battle-of-dalnaspidal/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Battle of Dalnaspidal was the final action of the Glencairn Rising, sometimes called the Royalist insurrection of 1653 to 1654. After the execution of Charles I in 1649 and the failure of the Third English Civil War in 1651, Scotland had been formally incorporated into Cromwe...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/g/battle-of-dalnaspidal-wp/gfhg-battle-of-dalnaspidal-the-glencairn-rising.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Dalnaspidal: The Ambush at Loch Garry https://qualla.com/battle-of-dalnaspidal/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. Thomas Morgan was one of Cromwell's most effective field commanders, a Welsh soldier who had served on the Continent in the Thirty Years War. By July 1654 he was operating in the central Highlands with a strong force of horse and foot. He had been tracking Middleton's army for we...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/g/battle-of-dalnaspidal-wp/gfhg-battle-of-dalnaspidal-the-ambush-at-loch-garry.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Dalnaspidal: Aftermath and Pardon https://qualla.com/battle-of-dalnaspidal/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. Middleton was wounded but escaped into the mountains. He was never able to gather a substantial force again. The Glencairn Rising was effectively over. General George Monck, Cromwell's commander in Scotland, wanted the leaders of the uprising put to death as an example. The Prote...

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