Qualla: Battle of Philiphaugh https://qualla.com/battle-of-philiphaugh en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Philiphaugh https://qualla.com/battle-of-philiphaugh Battle of Philiphaugh: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-philiphaugh/ James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, woke up on the morning of 13 September 1645 inside Selkirk, slept-in, badly informed, and a few miles from a battle he did not know was about to begin. He had spent the previous year winning six remarkable victories for King Charles, including the destruction of the last Covenanter army at Kilsyth a month earlier. He believed Scotland was almost his. Then the morning mist lifted on the field at Philiphaugh, and a Covenanter cavalry general named David Leslie was already there with 5,000 horsemen. By the time the day ended, Montrose's army was finished, and one of the worst atrocities of the British civil wars had just been committed in a Border meadow.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/g/battle-of-philiphaugh-wp/gcvg-battle-of-philiphaugh-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Philiphaugh: The Campaign That Almost Won https://qualla.com/battle-of-philiphaugh/ Montrose was the unlikeliest Royalist hero. A Covenanter who had signed the National Covenant in 1638 against Charles I's religious policies, he had switched sides when he decided the Covenanter leadership had overreached. Sent to Scotland with a commission as Charles's Lieutenan...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/g/battle-of-philiphaugh-wp/gcvg-battle-of-philiphaugh-the-campaign-that-almost-won.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Philiphaugh: The Army Melts Away https://qualla.com/battle-of-philiphaugh/ Then the cracks appeared. Montrose refused to let his men sack Glasgow, accepting £500 from the city instead, and then waived the money to spare the burgh the cost, leaving his army unpaid. The Highlanders under MacColla refused to march any further south, unwilling to leave Clan...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/g/battle-of-philiphaugh-wp/gcvg-battle-of-philiphaugh-the-army-melts-away.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Philiphaugh: Mist and Surprise https://qualla.com/battle-of-philiphaugh/ Montrose quartered himself, his officers, and some of his cavalry in Selkirk on the night of 12 September. His infantry and the rest of the horse camped on flat ground across the Ettrick Water at Philiphaugh, behind ditches and hedges they had fortified with musketeers. The morni...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/g/battle-of-philiphaugh-wp/gcvg-battle-of-philiphaugh-mist-and-surprise.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Philiphaugh: What Happened After the Surrender https://qualla.com/battle-of-philiphaugh/ About 100 men of Manus O'Cahan's Irish regiment kept fighting after the cavalry had fled. Eventually they surrendered on the promise of quarter, the standard protection given to prisoners of war. They were not given it. Presbyterian ministers travelling with Leslie's army persuad...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/g/battle-of-philiphaugh-wp/gcvg-battle-of-philiphaugh-what-happened-after-the-surrender.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Philiphaugh: What Remains https://qualla.com/battle-of-philiphaugh/ Montrose tried to raise another army in the Highlands and could not. He fought a guerilla campaign through the winter, then received orders from King Charles, by then himself a prisoner, to lay down his arms. He went into exile. He would return to Scotland one final time in 1650,...

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