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daring offenders to punishment" - and ordered troops north. After a midnight attack on
Saturday 6 August by troops of the 42nd Black Watch, the drovers scattered and returned to their crofts. The Inverness County Sheriff Court Records show that six men were given punishments for driving the sheep away: Hugh Breck Mackenzie and John Aird were both ordered to be transported for seven years "beyond seas to such places as His Majesty shall appoint" and that if they returned to Britain within these seven years that they would be sentenced to death. Malcolm Ross was fined £50 and held in prison for one month, while William Cunningham was imprisoned for three years. Donald Munro and Alexander Mackay were both banished from Scotland for the rest of their lives. These events were known as the Ross-shire Sheep Riots but later became known as
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reporting that sheep farming was very unpopular in the
Highlands, as it "tended to remove the inhabitants from their small possessions and dwelling houses". The Home Secretary replied that it was "undisputably necessary that the most vigorous and effectual measures should be taken for bringing these
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Kildermorie found their cattle were being guarded by the Camerons. The Strathrusdale men were led by Alexander Wallace, known as "Big Wallace" and although the Camerons were powerful men they were too few in number and had to yield. However, one of the Camerons was armed with a
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Strathrusdale became the focus of the clearance policy in 1792 when on the 27th of July the inhabitants of the strath gathered for a wedding in the area where a plot was devised to drive away all the sheep, and by implication all the sheep-farmers. This issue had arisen when, in May 1792, the
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