"Battle of Drumclog 1679" Topic
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Tango01  | 04 Nov 2025 1:02 p.m. PST |
"On 1 June 1679, a Covenanter force defeated government troops led by John Graham of Claverhouse at Drumclog in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. I regularly pass the small village on my way down south, yet I have never looked at this small action in any detail. A couple of guys from my wargame club are involved in the reenactment society, The Earl of Loudoun's Regiment of Foote, and they were doing a small event near the battlefield today. By 1679, the Restoration government was persecuting the Covenanters, and Claverhouse, better known to his enemies as 'Bluidy Clavers', had been appointed to disperse conventicles in southwest Scotland. Claverhouse's dragoons attempted to disperse the Covenanters who had gathered for a conventicle at Loudoun Hill (the site of Robert Bruce's victory in 1307). The Covenanters, despite being outnumbered and less well-armed, took advantage of the terrain. The boggy ground favoured the Covenanters, who used it to neutralise the advantage of the dragoons. The Covenanters, under Robert Hamilton's leadership, launched a charge outflanking Claverhouse's dragoons, causing confusion and then rout…"
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