This battle, regarded by many today as the conflict between Highlanders and Lowlanders which killed the expansion of Gaelic influence, was one of the most brutal battles in scottish history, becoming known as the Red Harlaw.
The Battle of Harlaw was fought near Inverurie in Aberdeenshire on 24 July 1411.
The battle had been the result of the attempts by the Lord of the Isles to pursue his claim to the Earldom of Ross.
William Mackay, Battle of Harlaw : its true place in history (Inverness : Northern Chronicle, 1922); Anon., Two old historical Scots poems, giving an account of the battles of Harlaw, and the Reid-Squair (Glasgow, 1748); Charles Dawson, Don poem,...
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