Quote Originally Posted by BobsYourUncle View Post
While you are quite correct on the facts, you have missed how the event has reverberated culturally. For example, we reenactors of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders [historically associated with the Campbell clan & boar's head] are treated to a routine insult by Black Watch reenactors--these Black Watch fellows deem it necessary to loudly spit on the ground whenever they are forced to say "Argyll", in order to express their ire at the violation of the code of honor, not to mention the perceived treachery, performed by the Campbells who made up much of the detachment at Glencoe.

For those who are interested in a great read and dramatic story, I recommend John Prebble's Glencoe--The Story of the Massacre, available nearly anywhere online.
No, I am quite aware of that -- my brother-in-law tended bar for a time at the Clachaig Inn, with its famous "No Hawkers or Campbells" sign above the door.

The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders were not affiliated with the massacre, since the regiment was an amalgamation of the 91st (Princess Louise's Argyllshire) Regiment and the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment during the 1881 Cardwell Army reforms.

Glenlyon's men at Glencoe were members of the Earl of Argyll's Regiment of Foot, which was disbanded in 1697 after serving in the Low Countries. Not all of its members were Campbells, but it certainly was recruited in Campbell country.

T.