Qualla: Battle of Rullion Green https://qualla.com/battle-of-rullion-green 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/t/battle-of-rullion-green-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Rullion Green https://qualla.com/battle-of-rullion-green Battle of Rullion Green: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-rullion-green/ Photo credit Billy McCrorie, CC BY-SA 2.0. They had been marching for two weeks. By the time James Wallace led his men up the slopes above Glencorse on 28 November 1666, the rebels were exhausted, outnumbered, and far from home. Most of them were unemployed weavers and tradesmen from the southwest of Scotland, men whose churches had been taken from them and whose ministers had been driven out. They had set out to walk to Edinburgh and present a petition. They ended the day buried in the cold ground of the Pentland Hills, or chained on ships bound for Barbados, or waiting in Edinburgh cells for the executioner. This is the story of one short afternoon and the long, hard years that followed it.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/t/battle-of-rullion-green-wp/gcvt-battle-of-rullion-green-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Rullion Green: Why They Marched https://qualla.com/battle-of-rullion-green/ Photo credit Billy McCrorie, CC BY-SA 2.0. After the Stuart restoration of 1660, the Scottish government brought bishops back into the Church of Scotland. Ministers who refused to renounce the 1638 National Covenant - about 270 of them, a third of the kirk's clergy - lost their pulpits. Most were from the southwest, the h...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/t/battle-of-rullion-green-wp/gcvt-battle-of-rullion-green-the-march-to-edinburgh.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Rullion Green: The Afternoon https://qualla.com/battle-of-rullion-green/ Photo credit Billy McCrorie, CC BY-SA 2.0. Wallace drove off Drummond's first probe, but the main government force was only four miles away. Too close to escape. He formed his men on the high ground above the Glencorse River and waited. Dalyell deployed below. Three times the government soldiers attacked the Covenanter le...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/t/battle-of-rullion-green-wp/gcvt-battle-of-rullion-green-the-afternoon.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Rullion Green: What Was Done to Them https://qualla.com/battle-of-rullion-green/ Photo credit Billy McCrorie, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 19 December 1666, nine prisoners were beheaded at the cross in Glasgow. Their names are recorded on a memorial: Robert Bunton, John Hart, Robert Scot, Matthew Patoun, John Richmond, James Johnston, Archibald Stewart, James Winning, John Main. They died because they would not a...

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