Qualla: Battle of Tullich https://qualla.com/battle-of-tullich en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/u/battle-of-tullich-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Tullich https://qualla.com/battle-of-tullich Battle of Tullich: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-tullich/ Photo credit Scotland_location_map.svg: Eric Gaba, NordNordWest derivative work: Uwe Dedering, CC BY-SA 3.0. Charles II was a king without a country. Three years after his coronation army was destroyed at Worcester, he was wandering the continent on borrowed money while Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth governed Scotland with garrisons and gunpowder. The Highlands had not accepted this. Through the winter of 1653, a Royalist rising under William Cunningham, 9th Earl of Glencairn, had been moving through the eastern glens, gathering chiefs and harrying Cromwell's troops. On 10 February 1654, the Commonwealth general Robert Lilburne caught up with them near a pass close to Tullich, four miles east of Ballater. Holding the pass that day was a young Highland chief named Ewen Cameron of Lochiel. He had perhaps a few hundred clansmen, and his orders were simple: do not let the Commonwealth through.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/u/battle-of-tullich-wp/gfju-battle-of-tullich-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Tullich: After Worcester https://qualla.com/battle-of-tullich/ Photo credit wfmillar, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Battle of Worcester in September 1651 broke the last Royalist field army of the British Civil Wars. Charles II escaped via the famous oak tree at Boscobel and weeks of disguised flight to the continent. The Parliament of England then moved to absorb Scotland into the new Comm...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/u/battle-of-tullich-wp/gfju-battle-of-tullich-after-worcester.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Tullich: Ewen Cameron of Lochiel https://qualla.com/battle-of-tullich/ Photo credit wfmillar, CC BY-SA 2.0. Among the chiefs who joined the rising was Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, head of Clan Cameron, one of the most warlike clans of the Western Highlands. By February 1654, Glencairn's force was in the Eastern Highlands, harrying Commonwealth occupation troops along the Dee. Ewen and his ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/u/battle-of-tullich-wp/gfju-battle-of-tullich-ewen-cameron-of-lochiel.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Tullich: Holding the Pass https://qualla.com/battle-of-tullich/ Photo credit wfmillar, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Commonwealth troops outnumbered the Camerons substantially. They struck the pass and were thrown back; they attacked again and again, and were repulsed each time. The terrain favoured the Highlanders - narrow ground that prevented the Commonwealth from bringing its weight to ...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/u/battle-of-tullich-wp/gfju-battle-of-tullich-holding-the-pass.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Tullich: Deliverer of the Highland Army https://qualla.com/battle-of-tullich/ Photo credit wfmillar, CC BY-SA 2.0. When Ewen returned to Glencairn's camp, the army hailed him as 'The Deliverer of the Highland Army.' A letter of personal praise eventually reached him from Charles II in exile - a small but real reward in a war that offered very few. The wider rising was less fortunate. By 1655 ...

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