Battle of Auldearn

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The Battle of Auldearn, an engagement of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, took place on May 9, 1645, in and around the village of Auldearn in Nairn. It was a victory for Montrose and Alasdair MacColla, heading the royalist forces, over a Covenanter army under the command of Sir John Hurry. There is a Bagpipe Piobaireachd to commemorate this battle, Blár Allt Earrann.

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PRIMARY

• MacDonald, John, Orian Iain Lom. Songs of John MacDonald, Bard of Keppoch, ed. and trans. A. M. Mackenzie, 1964.
• Ruthven, Patrick Gordon of, A Short Abridgement of Britane's Distemper, 1844.
• Wishart, George, The Memoirs of James Marquis of Montrose, trans. A. D. Murdoch and H. F. Moorland-Simpson, 1893.

SECONDARY

• Buchan, J. Montrose, 1938.
• Cowan, E. J., Montrose. For Covenant and King, 1995.
• Macleod, R. H., The Battle of Auldearn, 9 May 1645, in The Seventeenth Century in the Highlands, Inverness Field Club, 1986.
• O'Danachair, C. O., Montrose's Irish Regiments, in Irish Sword, 1959-60.
• Reid, S., The Campaigns of Montrose, 1990.
• Stevenson, D., Alasdair MacColla and the Highland Problem in the Seventeenth Century, 1980.