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BATTLE OF HARLAW

The Battle of Harlaw was a battle, fought in 1411, which delivered the Lowlands of Scotland from a Highland invasion and the fear of Highland supremacy. Donald, lord of the Isles, having collected an army 10,000 strong, threatened to overrun all northern Scotland, and ravaged the country until he was met at Harlaw, on the Urie, in Aberdeenshire, by a much inferior Lowland force under the Earl of Mar. The battle resulted in the defeat of Donald, although many of the Lowland gentry, the provost and chief magistrates of Aberdeen, and a large number of men fell on the field.
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