Qualla: Battle of Leckmelm https://qualla.com/battle-of-leckmelm en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Leckmelm https://qualla.com/battle-of-leckmelm Battle of Leckmelm: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-leckmelm/ The Captain of the Clan Gunn escaped the field at Leckmelm by swimming. Wounded, he reached the far shore of a nearby loch only to be captured anyway, handed over to the Earl of Caithness, and eventually released to find what remained of his scattered men. The skirmish itself was small and short - a 'sharp skirmish,' the seventeenth-century historian Sir Robert Gordon called it - but the dead lay across a stretch of Loch Broom shoreline that even today reads as wide and empty. In the autumn of 1586, the Highlands tasted again what its clans had spent generations perfecting: the politics of grudge.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/3/battle-of-leckmelm-wp/gfk3-battle-of-leckmelm-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Leckmelm: Why the Gunns Were Running https://qualla.com/battle-of-leckmelm/ The road to Leckmelm began at another fight. At the Battle of Allt Camhna, not long before, the Clan Gunn had defeated the Clan Sinclair of Caithness with help from Clan Mackay. The Earl of Caithness took the loss personally. He gathered his forces with the Sutherlands and joined...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/3/battle-of-leckmelm-wp/gfk3-battle-of-leckmelm-why-the-gunns-were-running.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Leckmelm: Caught on the Loch https://qualla.com/battle-of-leckmelm/ They did not make it. Somewhere along the shore of Loch Broom, at a place called Leckmelm, James Mack-Rory of the MacLeods of Assynt and Niel Mack-ean-Mack-William of the Mackays of Aberach intercepted them. The chronicle is short - the kind of brevity that usually means the surv...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/k/3/battle-of-leckmelm-wp/gfk3-battle-of-leckmelm-caught-on-the-loch.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Leckmelm: Aftermath and Long Memory https://qualla.com/battle-of-leckmelm/ The scattered remnants of the Gunns found their way back to their ancestral lands in Strathnaver in the north. Hugh Mackay, in a striking turn for a man who had abandoned them, then restored them to their holdings - the Highland politics of the late sixteenth century did not run ...

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