London Gazette #2042 : 15 June 1685 London Gazette #2042 : June 11, 1685 at about seven in the evening the Duke of Monmouth landed with about 150 men and entered Lyme after arriving with three ships. Categories In the News/The Monmouth Rebellion
London Gazette #2041 : 11 June 1685 London Gazette #2041 : Atholl came to Glendaruel where Argyll son Charles lay, after a brisk fight, Campbell narrowly escaping capture, fled with his men and horse to his boats. Categories In the News/The Monmouth Rebellion
London Gazette #2039 : 4 June 1685 London Gazette #2039 : Earl of Argyll lands at Campbeltown on 20 May 1685 and orders his men to muster at Tarbert on 26 May. Categories In the News/The Monmouth Rebellion
London Gazette #2038 : 1 June 1685 London Gazette #2038 : A considerable part of the Kings forces, consisting chiefly of Highlanders under the Marquis of Atholl are marching with all speed to suppress the Rebels. Categories In the News/The Monmouth Rebellion
London Gazette #2037 : 30 May 1685 London Gazette #2037 : Argyll swears to burn every House on Islay and everyone in the Country that would not rise with him and commands the Fire Cross to dispatched through the whole Country. Categories In the News/The Monmouth Rebellion
London Gazette #2036 : 25 May 1685 London Gazette #2036 : The rebel, the Earl of Argyll lands with his Army in Scotland and makes his declaration, the War begins, but where is Monmouth? Categories In the News/The Monmouth Rebellion
Merry Christmas 2020 A Scottish Highland Women and a man dancing in plaid on a cliff edge, with a piper and onlooker. The image is timeless, but possibly shows a scene from the late 17th Century or early 18th Century. Categories Christmas2020
The Dorchester Assize At the Dorchester Assize 74 men are sentenced to death, of these 13 are hung, drawn and quartered on 7 September 1685 Categories Bloody Assize/FightingforLiberty1685
Lady Lisle and the Winchester Assize The story of Alicia Lisle, the first to die in Judge Jeffreys campaign in the west, the Bloody Assizes, September 1685 Categories Bloody Assize/FightingforLiberty1685
Fighting for Liberty 1685 Taken from original sources, Fighting for Liberty gives a gritty blow by blow account of the campaigns of 1685, that ends on the battlefield of Sedgemoor. Categories FightingforLiberty1685/The Monmouth Rebellion