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Glencoe,
that dark mysterious and foreboding place forever holds a place in the
hearts of the Highlander, for it was here that an act of infamy
was to be played out with the massacre in 1692 of the MacDonalds
of Glencoe. Scotland as a country, when looking over it's history,
is one of many tragedies and Glencoe is no exception for this
was a well planned exercise to rid a piece of land of a family of people
deemed a threat to the area by men whose job was to keep the peace.
Now much has been
written on the subject as to who gave the order and much has been written
as to who denied giving the order but the facts are that these so called
leaders of the community did in harmony acquiesce to the deed. The tradition
is that it was a Campbell who gave the final order. The very
name Campbell raised a dislike from a Macdonald even down
to recent days such was the hatred between these Clans for there had
been animosity there long before the murders.
Nowadays Glencoe has a popular mountaineering centre and if that's
too much for you there's good hillwalking to be done.
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