![]() With his back to the river, Mackay faced an uphill slope- where some 2,400 Highlanders stood. General Hugh Mackay was nervously organizing his 4,400 Lowland Scots and English soldiers as they emerged from the gorge that formed the pass of Killiecrankie. It was late afternoon in the Scottish Highlands, July 27, 1689. And the birds of the air shall be gorged with their prey, When the Chief of Glengarry comes down to the fray, With his war-cry, The Rock of the Raven.
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