Battle of Rhunahaorine Moss

A Battle that took place in 1643

55°40′37″N 5°38′46″W / 55.677°N 5.646°W / 55.677; -5.646Result Covenanter victoryBelligerents Royalists CovenantersCommanders and leaders Alasdair MacColla David Leslie

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Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Bishops Wars

• Brig of Dee
• Newburn

First English Civil War

• Newcastle
• Boldon Hill
• York
• Marston Moor
• Tippermuir
• 1st Aberdeen
• Carlisle
• Inverlochy
• Auldearn
• Alford
• Fyvie
• Kilsyth
• Philiphaugh
• Annan Moor
• 2nd Aberdeen
• Lagganmore
• Rhunahaorine Moss

Second English Civil War

• Dunaverty
• Mauchline Muir
• Preston
• Winwick

Anglo-Scottish war (1650–1652)

• Whiggamore Raid
• Stirling
• 1st Inverness
• 2nd Inverness
• Carbisdale
• Dunbar
• Inverkeithing
• Dundee
• Worcester

Glencairn's rising

• Tullich
• Dalnaspidal

The Battle of Rhunahaorine Moss took place between Covenanters led by General David Leslie and Royalist forces led by Alasdair Mac Colla Chiotaich (Sir Alexander MacDonald) at Rhunahaorine Point, Kintyre, Scotland on 24 May 1647. The Covenanters defeated the Royalists.^[1]

Largie Castle at Rhunahaorine, home of the MacDonalds of Largie, was razed by the forces of General David Leslie.^[2]

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Further reading

• McAlister, Lynn (2015). "Later 17th Century". Macalister History Timeline. Retrieved 27 August 2020.

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