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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 795 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KILLIECRANKIE , a pass of See also:

Perthshire, See also:Scotland, 34 m. N.N.W. of See also:Pitlochry by the Highland railway. Beginning See also:close to Killiecrankie station it extends southwards to the See also:bridge of Garry for nearly i2 m. through the narrow, extremely beautiful, densely wooded glen in the channel of which flows the Garry. A road constructed by See also:General See also:Wade in 1932 runs up the pass, and between this and the See also:river is the railway, built in 1863. The See also:battle of the 27th of See also:July 1689, between some 3000 See also:Jacobites under See also:Viscount See also:Dundee and the royal force, about 4000 strong, led by General See also:Hugh See also:Mackay, though named from the See also:ravine, was not actually fought in the pass. When Mackay emerged from the See also:gorge he found the Highlanders already in battle See also:array on the high ground on the right See also:bank of the Girnaig, a tributary of the Garry, within See also:half a mile of where the railway station now is. Before he had See also:time to See also:form on the more open table-See also:land, the clansmen charged impetuously with their claymores and swept his troops back into the pass and the Garry. Mackay lost nearly half his force, the Jacobites about 900, including their See also:leader. Urrard See also:House adjoins the spot where Viscount Dundee received his See also:death-See also:wound.

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