#40 - The Massacre of Glencoe

The Massacre of clan Macdonald by Government troops in the winter of 1692 is one of the most shocking and infamous events in all of Scottish history. After the defeat of the first Jacobite Rising in Scotland in 1690, the Williamite Government demanded that all Highland Chieftains must make on oath of personal allegiance to King William and Queen Mary by the 1st of January 1692. This required them to sing 'Simply the Best' instead of 'Auld Lang Syne' at the bells, and to report in person to the necessary government magistrate who could record the official undertaking of the oath. When a series of calamitous and unfortunate events resulted in one of the clan chieftains, Alasdair MacIain Macdonald, chieftain of the Macdonald's of Glencoe, taking the oath five days after the January 1st deadline, Secretary of State for Scotland Sir John Dalrymple demanded the destruction of the Macdonald's of Glencoe 'by fire and by sword.' After being billeted with the Macdonalds for two weeks, in the early hours of the 13th of February 1692, government soldiers turned on their hosts and murdered them in their sleep. The soldiers had slept in the Macdonald's beds, ate their food, drunk their wine and joined their evening ceilidhs before turning on their hosts and massacring them. It was a shocking betrayal of the almost sacrosanct ethics of Highland hospitality and every Airbnb host's worst nightmare.

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