GCRB6W Glen Fruin (Traditional Cache) in Southern Scotland, United Kingdom created by RonnieH

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A cache by RonnieH Message this owner

Hidden : 11/14/2005

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Easy cache and dash I think you call it. Park in layby just west of Strone Camp, Glen Fruin and view the monument. From here you can take in the Shielings if you haven't done it.

Clan Macgregor, fresh from a raid upon the Colquhoun lands of Luss on Loch Lomondside, found themselves once again in Royal disfavour with King James VI. With full authorization from the Crown the Colquhoun's readied a strong armed response, consisting of their own kin along with Buchanan's and the burgesses of Dumbarton.
Not content to wait for an impending attack, Alasdair Macgregor advanced south to meet his opponents with 300 of his own men, in addition to men from the MacDonald’s and MacIans of Glencoe, Robertson’s, MacLean’s and "some Cameron’s." These men were armed with "halberschois, powaixes, twa-handit swordies, bowis and arrowis, and with hagbutia and pistoletis."
The armies met in Glen Fruin, which runs westward from Loch Lomond. The Colquhoun’s, whom numbered a reported three hundred mounted men and five hundred foot were soundly defeated by the Macgregor contingent of 300 men. Their lands were once again raided by the Macgregor’s and presumably their aforementioned associates.
Soon afterwards the Macgregor’s found themselves an outlawed clan. Less than two months following the battle, on April 3, 1603 an Act of the Privy Council proscribed the use of the names Gregor or Macgregor, and prohibited those who had borne the names from carrying arms. Within ten years of Glen Fruin most of them were either dead, run off their lands or in Government hands.

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Va ng gur ebbgf bs gur cvar gerr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)