Qualla: Battle of Loup Hill https://qualla.com/battle-of-loup-hill 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/2/battle-of-loup-hill-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Loup Hill https://qualla.com/battle-of-loup-hill Battle of Loup Hill: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-loup-hill/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. It was over almost before it began. Two hundred men under Gorrie Macalister of Loup and Macneill of Gallachoille were lying in wait on the slopes of Loup Hill in Kintyre on 16 May 1689, with the perfect ambush position - high ground, surprise, the Jacobite cause fresh and the Highland blood up. Below them came Captain William Young with about five hundred government troops, newly raised, undertrained, slogging across the peninsula. The Jacobites fired. The government troops fired back. Then the Jacobites ran. Young's force suffered no casualties. They found two dead on the hillside. A few days later the Jacobite chiefs abandoned Kintyre entirely and fled to Ireland.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/2/battle-of-loup-hill-wp/gfh2-battle-of-loup-hill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Loup Hill: Why It Mattered Anyway https://qualla.com/battle-of-loup-hill/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. By the count of casualties Loup Hill was barely a skirmish - two dead, no follow-up, no maps in military histories. But the strategic consequence was significant. Kintyre, the long peninsula reaching south from Argyll toward Ireland, was the obvious supply route between the Jacob...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/2/battle-of-loup-hill-wp/gfh2-battle-of-loup-hill-why-it-mattered-anyway.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Loup Hill: The 1688 Crisis https://qualla.com/battle-of-loup-hill/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. The rising had its roots in the events of June 1688. James II and VII, a Catholic king ruling staunchly Protestant kingdoms, lost his political authority over two weeks. On 10 June his queen gave birth to James Francis Edward - suddenly a Catholic dynasty was possible, replacing ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/2/battle-of-loup-hill-wp/gfh2-battle-of-loup-hill-the-1688-crisis.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Loup Hill: Old Grudges In Kintyre https://qualla.com/battle-of-loup-hill/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. In Kintyre the choosing of sides was less about William and James and more about Macdonalds and Campbells. The peninsula had long been Macdonald and Macalister country before the Campbells absorbed it in the 1670s. After Argyll's Rising of 1685 - when the Earl of Argyll, a Protes...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/2/battle-of-loup-hill-wp/gfh2-battle-of-loup-hill-old-grudges-in-kintyre.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Loup Hill: Flight Context https://qualla.com/battle-of-loup-hill/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. Loup Hill sits at 56.272 N, 4.924 W, on the west side of the Kintyre peninsula, inland from Loup Bay between Tarbert and Clachan. From cruising altitude Kintyre runs as a long thin finger of land 40 nm long, pointing south toward the Mull of Kintyre. The west coast of the peninsula here faces the Sound of Gigha; the Atlantic is just beyond the small island of Gigha to the west. Campbeltown Airport (EGEC) is 30 nm south, Glasgow (EGPF) 50 nm east, Islay (EGPI) 25 nm west. The hill is unspectacular - a low rise of moorland with no obvious built features - but its position on the strategic spine of the peninsula is clear from the air. The B8024 road runs roughly along the route Young's troops would have taken from Tarbert.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/2/battle-of-loup-hill-wp/gfh2-battle-of-loup-hill-the-ambush-and-the-flight.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Loup Hill: Killiecrankie And After https://qualla.com/battle-of-loup-hill/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. Several of the Loup Hill Jacobites fought at the Battle of Killiecrankie in July 1689, when Dundee's Highlanders famously charged downhill at General Mackay's government regulars and broke them at the cost of Dundee's own life. Without Dundee, the rising fell apart by 1690. The L...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/2/battle-of-loup-hill-wp/gfh2-battle-of-loup-hill-killiecrankie-and-after.mp3 0:06 6 full