Glencoe
This remote Highland glen became infamous in Scottish national history after the MacDonalds there were attacked by soldiers of the government of King William III. After 1688, the newly established government in Scotland sought to bring the Jacobite, often Catholic, regions of the west under more direct control. Government troops billeted in Glencoe and commanded by a Campbell, turned their guns upon their hosts early upon a snowy winter morning. What happened and why it happened combine truth and myth. But to this day, it remains one of the most iconic events in Scottish history.
