The Campbells Are Coming: Altimarlach, the Sinclairs of Caithness, and a Kilt for the Heavy Events
In the summer of 1680 an army of Campbells marched from Argyll to the far north-eastern corner of Scotland, three hundred miles, to take possession of a county. The county was Caithness, and it had belonged to the Sinclairs for three hundred years. The sixth Earl of Caithness had died in 1676 so deep in…