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On the morning of 13 February 1692, soldiers who had spent 12 days eating and sleeping in the homes of the MacDonalds of Glencoe turned on their hosts and killed them in their beds. Thirty-eight people died. Others fled into the winter hills and did not survive the cold. The Scottish Parliament later named it […]
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