Qualla: Battle of Hieton https://qualla.com/battle-of-hieton en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/battle-of-hieton-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Hieton https://qualla.com/battle-of-hieton Battle of Hieton: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-hieton/ Photo credit User:Supergolden, CC BY-SA 3.0. They thought they could negotiate with Oliver Cromwell. The Remonstrants - the most zealous wing of a Scottish army already shattered three months earlier at Dunbar - believed they could persuade the Lord General to take his New Model Army home and leave Scotland to those godly enough to govern it. Cromwell's reply, on 1 December 1650, was a thousand cavalry under Major-General John Lambert. They met the Scots at Hieton - Scots for 'high town,' the rise above the Cadzow Burn that is now central Hamilton.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/battle-of-hieton-wp/gcvj-battle-of-hieton-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Hieton: A Kingdom Divided Against Itself https://qualla.com/battle-of-hieton/ Photo credit User:Supergolden, CC BY-SA 3.0. The execution of Charles I in January 1649 had pulled Scotland in two directions at once. The Scottish Parliament, never consulted about the killing of its king, had promptly declared his son Charles II to be King of Britain and set about raising an army to put him on the throne....

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/battle-of-hieton-wp/gcvj-battle-of-hieton-a-kingdom-divided-against-itself.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Hieton: The High Town Above the Burn https://qualla.com/battle-of-hieton/ Photo credit User:Supergolden, CC BY-SA 3.0. Colonel Gilbert Ker led the Remonstrants south through a country wet with early winter. At Hieton, on rising ground above the Cadzow Burn where it joins the Clyde, he caught Lambert's English troopers off-guard and attacked at dawn. The surprise worked - briefly. The Scots broke ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/battle-of-hieton-wp/gcvj-battle-of-hieton-the-high-town-above-the-burn.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Hieton: What Came After https://qualla.com/battle-of-hieton/ Photo credit User:Supergolden, CC BY-SA 3.0. Hieton was a small fight in a much larger war, but its consequences were immediate. With the Western Remonstrants destroyed, the Scottish government's hand was forced. The radicals were finished, and the army would be rebuilt by whoever was willing. The following summer Cromwell ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/j/battle-of-hieton-wp/gcvj-battle-of-hieton-what-came-after.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Hieton: A Plaque on a Bridge https://qualla.com/battle-of-hieton/ Photo credit User:Supergolden, CC BY-SA 3.0. Today the field of the Battle of Hieton lies under Hamilton's Common Green, a sliver of public grass tucked beside the town centre. The 19th-century Cadzow Bridge crosses overhead, and a modest plaque mounted on the bridge by Hamilton Civic Society tells passers-by that men once ...

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