Qualla: Battle of Dunkeld https://qualla.com/battle-of-dunkeld 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/j/3/battle-of-dunkeld-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Dunkeld https://qualla.com/battle-of-dunkeld Battle of Dunkeld: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-dunkeld/ Photo credit El Foes, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Cameronians were not born to be soldiers. They were Lowland tenant farmers and tradesmen, raised as a regiment barely weeks earlier from the followers of the martyred preacher Richard Cameron, men who prayed before breakfast and saw no contradiction between psalm-singing and musket drill. When the Scottish Privy Council ordered them north to hold the small cathedral town of Dunkeld against a Jacobite army flushed with victory, they marched into a fight that would last sixteen hours, consume hundreds of lives, and end with defenders melting lead from rooftops to fashion ammunition. It was 21 August 1689, and Scotland's future hung on whether a few hundred untested soldiers could survive the night.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/3/battle-of-dunkeld-wp/gfj3-battle-of-dunkeld-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Dunkeld: After Killiecrankie https://qualla.com/battle-of-dunkeld/ Photo credit Richard Simkin, Public domain. Three weeks earlier, the Jacobite cause had triumphed spectacularly at the Battle of Killiecrankie, twenty miles to the north. A Highland charge had shattered a government army in minutes. But the victory cost the Jacobites their brilliant commander, Viscount Dundee, killed at th...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/3/battle-of-dunkeld-wp/gfj3-battle-of-dunkeld-after-killiecrankie.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Dunkeld: A Cathedral Turned Fortress https://qualla.com/battle-of-dunkeld/ Photo credit Richard Simkin, Public domain. Dunkeld had no town walls, no castle, no conventional defences. Cleland did what he could with what was available. He barricaded his roughly 1,200 men behind the enclosing wall of the cathedral and the nearby mansion of the Marquess of Atholl, turning ecclesiastical architecture ...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/3/battle-of-dunkeld-wp/gfj3-battle-of-dunkeld-a-cathedral-turned-fortress.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Dunkeld: Lead from the Rooftops https://qualla.com/battle-of-dunkeld/ Photo credit Richard Simkin, Public domain. Cleland was killed early in the fighting, shot through the head and the liver. But his regiment did not break. Command passed to Captain George Munro, and the Cameronians fought on with a ferocity born of religious conviction and sheer desperation. When Highlanders barricaded the...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/3/battle-of-dunkeld-wp/gfj3-battle-of-dunkeld-lead-from-the-rooftops.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Dunkeld: A Victory That Ended a War https://qualla.com/battle-of-dunkeld/ Photo credit Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0. At eleven o'clock that night, the Jacobite Highlanders withdrew. They had lost roughly 300 dead in the streets and houses of Dunkeld. Cameronian losses were far smaller -- reported as somewhere between 20 and 50 killed -- though the regiment was exhausted and its commander was de...

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