He plunged into the darkness of the road that led to the Maltland barracks where the fifty claymores were quartered.
I should not wonder if there are half a hundred claymores with hands in them somewhere about our old barracks in Maltland.
Then they poured it in upon them ‘like one great clap of thunder,’ and, throwing away their muskets, fell upon the infantry with their claymores before it had time to fix bayonets to receive them.
Still, even he did not recommend a general engagement before the arrival of the remainingclaymores had brought their numbers more nearly to an equality with those of their opponents.
When he broke up his army early in June he seems to have had about three thousand claymores under him.
Over and above the claymores he had not four hundred.
But the number of claymores which this first muster brought to Lochaber cannot have been less than two thousand.
The soldiers had not time to fix their bayonets in the smoking muzzles of their muskets before the claymores were among them and the battle was over.
Every clan had its hereditary feud, and no one could say that on the day of battle the claymores might not be drawn against each other instead of against the common foe.
In an attempt to take Stirling Castle they were defeated by Sir George Monro with a division of Hamilton's army which had not crossed the border; but Argyle had better tools to work with than the claymores of his Highlanders.
He had no fear for the result; but he would answer for nothing were the claymores to be kept back now the Saxons were fairly at their feet.
Highland tradition puts the claymores at nineteen hundred; and this is probably much about the truth.
The chiefs of the great clans were ordered to hold their claymores ready: the castles of Edinburgh and Stirling were munitioned for war: the militia was called out in every county, and volunteers enrolled in every town.
The claymores would not have room for their work, and half the column would escape.
Your men are in fine fettle, Lochiel," said Charles, "and as keen as their claymores to be at it.
The claymores had taken the conceit out of him finely.
Everywhere they were hard at it, sharpening dirks and claymores and furbishing muskets, and such of their talk as I could understand was all of battle imminent.
The beacons blazed, the banners flew, The war-pipes loud their pibrochs blew, The trusty clans their claymores drew, To shield their Royal Charlie.
Oh, I could be wishing for my brother Malcolm or some of the good claymores on the braes of Raasay!
There are three hundred claymores would be leaping from the scabbard for this.
Deil hae't, Red Donald brought with him a hundred claymores and he wasna half so kenspeckle (conspicuous).
Three hundred Macleod claymores bar the way, all eager to wipe out an insult to the daughter of Raasay.
But enough; 'tis over now, and there remains--three thousand claymores and an empty title!
Most of them still lay in their plaids, scattered broadcast as if they had been slain on the field of battle, with their claymores held in their arms as a mother holds a favorite child.
I could be doing with more about me of the quality I mention; better than horse and foot would they be, more trusty than the claymores of my clan.
Stoutly did we fight, and to the end stood back to back, hewing with our claymores at their muskets.
The Scotch clansmen used their claymores chiefly for striking; but under Rudolph's tuition the lad came to be as apt with the point as he had before been with the edge, and fully recognized the great advantages of the former.
With their claymores they slashed at the faces of horses.
The braw lord stopped speaking, and all the Hielandmen and Lowlandmen drew and held up and brandished theirclaymores and swords.
They hadclaymores and targes, and the most muskets.
His army was rapidly swollen to near double the number of claymores that Dundee had commanded.
The knowledge that he could bring into the field the claymores of five thousand half heathen mountaineers added to his influence among the austere Presbyterians who filled the Privy Council and the General Assembly at Edinburgh.
Mackay, accompanied by one trusty servant, spurred bravely through the thickest of the claymores and targets, and reached a point from which he had a view of the field.
One word from the Marquess would have sent two thousand claymores to the Jacobite side.
A Cameron would take no orders from a Macleod; the Macphersons, who numbered some four hundred in all, held themselves as good men as the Campbells, who could bring five thousand claymoresinto the field.
The claymores and Lochaber axes did bloody work among the fugitives, and some of the fat burghers, untouched by either, are said to have dropped dead from sheer exhaustion.
The victorious Gordons swept in from either flank on the centre; Glengarry led his claymores down the hill; Montrose and his nephew brought up the reserve, and another battle was won for King Charles.
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