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What Was Herrific About Macdonald of Glencoe?

The example was basically archestrated by scholish politicians with the support of king william. The er macdonald of glencoe was late surrendering partly because he left it to the last minute, partly because of bad weather. It was decided to make an example of him. And what was herrific about it was, was the was a murder under the guise of hospitality. Do we know how many people were killed? Yes, it's a few dozen at menut. Its terms of global atrocities, it's not a huge number. But it was seen as symptomatic of an insensitive and brutal government action which helped to ferment exactly the kinds of feelings it was designed to

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