The Appin Murder

Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788853224

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The Appin Murder by James Hunter Pdf

On a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May 1752, a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin Campbell, a government agent traveling to nearby Duror where he’s evicting farm tenants to make way for his relatives. Campbell’s killer evades capture, but Britain’s rulers insist this challenge to their authority must result in a hanging. The sacrificial victim is James Stewart, who is organizing resistance to Campbell’s takeover of lands long held by his clan, the Appin Stewarts. James is a veteran of the Highland uprising crushed in April 1746 at Culloden. In Duror he sees homes torched by troops using terror tactics against rebel Highlanders. The same brutal response to dissent means that James’s corpse will for years hang from a towering gibbet and leave a community utterly ravaged. Introducing this new edition of his account of what came to be called the Appin Murder, historian James Hunter tells how his own Duror upbringing introduced him to the tragic story of James Stewart.

Author : James Hunter
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788853224

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The Appin Murder by James Hunter Pdf

On a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May 1752 a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin Campbell, a government agent travelling to nearby Duror where he's evicting farm tenants to make way for his relatives. Campbell's killer evades capture, but Britain's rulers insist this challenge to their authority must result in a hanging. The sacrificial victim is James Stewart, who is organising resistance to Campbell's takeover of lands long held by his clan, the Appin Stewarts. James is a veteran of the Highland uprising crushed in April 1746 at Culloden. In Duror he sees homes torched by troops using terror tactics against rebel Highlanders. The same brutal response to dissent means that James's corpse will for years hang from a towering gibbet and leave a community utterly ravaged. Introducing this new and updated edition of his account of what came to be called the Appin Murder, historian James Hunter tells how his own Duror upbringing introduced him to the tragic story of James Stewart.

Author : William MacArthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Murder
ISBN : IND:32000000104465

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The Appin Murder and the Trial of James Stewart by William MacArthur Pdf

Author : David Norman Mackay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Highlands (Scotland)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044157811

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The Appin Murder by David Norman Mackay Pdf

Author : Lee Holcombe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Appin Station (Scotland)
ISBN : 1418428280

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Ancient Animosity by Lee Holcombe Pdf

For 250 years speculation has swirled as to the true murderer of Colin Campbell, and whether James Stewart, hanged as an accessory, really was part of a conspiracy that might have ignited rebellion in Scotland. The rivalry between the Campbell and Stewart clans was connected to the political and religious fires that had already engulfed Britain the fourth Jacobite rebellion had been extinguished with the blood of thousands of Highlanders only six years before the two bullets pierced Colin's back in 1752 and one newspaper said the "ancient animosity" between the clans was likely to resume because of the crime. But that prediction was wrong, and the public display of James's body until the bones blew down was just the most gruesome of policies and events that quelled and finally transformed Scotland. The "Appin murder" figures in the novels of Robert Louis Stevenson and elsewhere is rendered as bad history, propaganda, and myth. Dr. Holcombe's definitive volume a 20-year project drawing on nearly 500 sources illuminates tales of buried treasure, shooting matches, spies, treachery and exile, but more importantly solves the murder and tells the story of one society in its death throes and another

Author : Seamus Carney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746
ISBN : 1912476193

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The Appin Murder by Seamus Carney Pdf

An account of the mysterious murder of Colin Campbell of Glenure.

Author : David Norman Mackay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Trials (Murder)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044126097

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Trial of James Stewart (the Appin Murder) by David Norman Mackay Pdf

James Stewart was tried in the Circuit court of justiciary at Inveraray, 1752, as abettor of Allan Stewart, commonly called Allan Breck Stewart, in the murder of Colin Campbell.

Author : James Stewart,Scotland. Circuit Court of Justiciary (Western District)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1907*
Category : Murder
ISBN : OCLC:314532202

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Trial of James Stewart : (the Appin Murder) by James Stewart,Scotland. Circuit Court of Justiciary (Western District) Pdf

Author : James Stewart
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0332027856

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Trial of James Stewart by James Stewart Pdf

Excerpt from Trial of James Stewart: The Appin Murder His letters give proof of practice in writing, and no reader of the pages that follow will wonder that he became a leader in Appin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Rosemary Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Appin Station (Scotland)
ISBN : 1870874471

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The Appin Murder by Rosemary Gibson Pdf

Author : James 1723-1752 Stewart
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015038859

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Trial of James Stewart (the Appin Murder) by James 1723-1752 Stewart Pdf

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Author : James D 1752 Stewart,David N (David Norman) MacKay,Scotland Circuit Court of Justiciary
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013742788

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Trial of James Stewart [microform] by James D 1752 Stewart,David N (David Norman) MacKay,Scotland Circuit Court of Justiciary Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : James Stewart (defendant.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Trials (Murder)
ISBN : OCLC:1067787326

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Trial of James Stewart by James Stewart (defendant.) Pdf

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Fiction
ISBN : OXFORD:504222541

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Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson Pdf

"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. - Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a coming-of-age novel that recounts the adventures of a teenager named David Balfour during the Jacobite Rebellions in 18th century Scotland. Following his father's death, David reaches out to an uncle, who betrays his nephew and sells him to a slave-trader headed for America. David's rescue from the slave ship by a Jacobite refugee starts David on a series of adventures that ensure his passage into manhood.

Author : Mary McGrigor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Appin Station (Scotland)
ISBN : OCLC:1244799766

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Grass Will Not Grow on My Grave by Mary McGrigor Pdf