Find out about The Last Jacobite at kzread.info/dash/bejne/hIh8m9GrqKTalbw.html OR The Jacobite Tale they Won't Tell on Outlander at kzread.info/dash/bejne/o4OVtrihiafOfc4.html

@_i_am_unceded

2 жыл бұрын

Honor and Respect. You are good counsel.

@cam553

2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations on 100k subs. I hope your hard work is paying off. With admiration and respect from a Kiwi of Scottish heritage on both sides.

@jamiemcdonald1904

2 жыл бұрын

Is queen Elizabeth II, related to William of orange ?

@DH.2016

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamiemcdonald1904 Not a blood relative. He was married to Mary II (of England), James II's (of England - James VII of Scotland) daughter. They had no children. Mary died young at age 32. When William died, her sister, Anne, became Queen and shortly after, the first monarch of Great Britain.

@hachwarwickshire1718

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent. Again. A+

74 year old and hearing the true horror of this event for the first time. Someone else in these comments said your presentations get better and better and I agree.While all of your offerings are thoughtful witty and compelling some are outstanding. This was one of those. At the risk of seeming to be pissing in your pocket I regard yourself to be the finest in the documentary genre. If only there was more recognition of your efforts.

@rozbrown6826

2 жыл бұрын

Wholeheartedly agree with you. Bruce deserves more recognition. History lessons in school would be more colourful if they showed Bruce's stories when they got to the Scottish part. Great comment 👍💕💕

@desertduke1

2 жыл бұрын

Heartily agree. This one is... deep.

@johnshorten6877

2 жыл бұрын

Me2!! Could listen to him all day!

@OcculiMortis

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, yes, yes, and more yes. There needs to be someone in the education and entertainment systems in Scotland that can make his history lessons into intro’s for history classes. Many of them could literally set the mood about the lesson before the teacher even speaks a word. And then when the video is over the teacher then continues the lesson with the same upbeat, or somber tone that Bruce had. Man that would be awesome.

@djonfonsteen6331

2 жыл бұрын

Well said mate 👌

It enrages me greatly that, as scots, we have to scrimp and scrape and search endlessly for content like this. Informative and educationally factual stories about our own history. It's shocking and culturally abhorrent that we are not taught our own history in our own schools. Scots should be told these stories as part of our education curriculum, not some watered down modern British history that totally excludes our own backgrounds and vast vast rich history. Good on you for bringing a light these stories in video.

@terrykeever9422

Жыл бұрын

The "winners" write the histories and often control the telling or the silence.

@mrfreeman2911

Жыл бұрын

The snp don't want scots to know the truth. The truth isn't black and white. The snp still act as if braveheart was a documentary.

@felicityarchibald5925

Жыл бұрын

There was not one but two inquiries into the massacre. Much is owed to the investigative journalist of the day, Charles Leslie, a former Church of Ireland priest who became a leading Jacobite propagandist after the 1688 ‘Glorious Revolution’. He was one of a small number of Irish Protestants to actively support the Stuarts after 1688. This is a key moment in British history, as the massacre occurred a year to the day after the Bill of Rights in the English Parliament, which listed individual rights, including the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments. The Massacre of Glencoe could be described as the "British Watergate of its day" as the trail led all the way to the King under a constitution not too dissimilar from the framework of the US Constitution in which the King / President is responsible for foreign policy and 'commander-in-chief' of the armed forces. May I suggest you read "Glencoe: The Story of a Massacre" by John Prebble.

@Alphardus

11 ай бұрын

Except you don't have to ''Scrimp and Scrape''. Always with the victim complex, People will never give it up and will always be something else ''Putting them down''. Get a grip.

@tiffaniterris2886

11 ай бұрын

@@terrykeever9422 - That's a popular saying, but completely false. If the winners wrote history then we wouldn't know anything like the video covered. Also, if the implication is that the winners telling of history is false, than any alternative versions of history are suspect. Which essentially means nothing can be trusted.

I visit Glencoe regularly and pay tribute to those who were robbed of their lives. A sadness hangs over the place, but its beauty is immense. Thanks for the video, it struck the tone perfectly.

@shaynemc7533

Жыл бұрын

I'm an Australian McHenry (Henderson), Does much remain of the family ?. They were also wiped out and had married into the Donald's.

@Krugoose

11 ай бұрын

Me and my wife go to glencoe every year for Valentine’s Day we always go and pay our respects I grew up knowing the stories as my mum told me them all the time she was always horrified we are McCormacks. It’s a beautiful place with a sad history

@jamesthomson7634

11 ай бұрын

@@shaynemc7533 the name Henderson is still very common in Scotland as are all the Scottish names mentioned, none could be completely wiped out as Scotland is a big place with many hard to reach places in the North.

@shaynemc7533

11 ай бұрын

@@jamesthomson7634 100% it's hard enough tracking close family even today. I'm going to go on a time warp and see where it all began.

@ryand.5857

10 ай бұрын

On behalf of my ancestors who perished there, thank you 🙏🏼

Hamilton was the real piece o' work and evil mastermind in the Glen Coe tale. Everyone holds the Campbell's as responsible, but he was the real mastermind behind the massacre, and the Campbell's but his tools. Masterful telling of the tale Bruce. One of our biggest strengths and weaknesses as Scots, is we can hold onto grudges for a very very long time.

@The_Gallowglass

3 ай бұрын

"I was only followin' orders" Still makes you the devil's children.

@kayla-Rey22

3 ай бұрын

I think John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, was just as complicit. Maybe even more so as he was Secretary of State for Scotland and the one who spoke directly with the King on these matters. He absolutely hated the Jacobite clans.

As usual, a thoughtful and insightful look at Scottish history. "Plenty of guilt to go around" sums it up well. Power politics and the fate of the little people.

@christophermcguire5795

2 жыл бұрын

I would've refused to gallows with a song in my heart

@threetreasures7698

5 ай бұрын

I hear you. The so-called little people - hard scrabble, hard working, innocent, good people - slaughtered. A pattern repeated throughout history. We’re facing these same dilemmas once again in the USA and other places.

What to do when given an illegal order or even an order they know isn’t really correct? A struggle that many soldiers/officers struggle with to this day. Now 23 years into a career I know what I’d do but, ask 18 year me a scared young boy who would be keen to impress, that’s scary. Brilliant video!!

@pamelaadam9207

2 жыл бұрын

Aye but that wasn't just sodjers it was Campbells

@terryroots5023

2 жыл бұрын

Well said, it is easier to get the young to carry out the act.

@TheStein474

2 жыл бұрын

@@pamelaadam9207 did you watch the video? I think the point of it not being just the cambells. Was clearly made

@phallopeonchoobs5290

2 жыл бұрын

Then the age of recruitment should be 25 at least.

@2H80vids

2 жыл бұрын

@@pamelaadam9207 Not a very bright remark; did you watch the video? If you did, you've kind of missed the whole point.

Excellent explanation of a tragic event. As a Campbell hearing of this event brought sadness, that the clans name was used as a cover for those in power is sad but not surprising. Thank you for bringing Scottish history to life.

@andrewmacdonald3270

7 ай бұрын

As a Macdonald blame u for my ancestors deaths.

@mikecampbell1731

2 ай бұрын

​@andrewmacdonald3270 just following orders bud. Maybe you should have turned in your oath before the deadline lol

@LV-wl7ch

2 ай бұрын

@@mikecampbell1731 Look down at the ground... under your feet. Who will hear your cry when the ground opens to swallow your soul? Taking you into the deep dark abyss? Better now to fall on your knees crying out, "Lord, forgive me please."

You are such a passionate narrator. I love this channel and the history you share. My wife and I both have ancestors from Scotland and we love this channel.

My first introduction to the Glencoe Massacre was when i was very young. At Hogmanay at family gatherings. The oldies would sing and one of the songs was The Massacre of Glencoe. To this day i remember every verse, it still is a hauntingly beautiful song altho it is about murder. You brought back a great memory of my Great-Granda, who even though having no teeth could sing that song beautifully. Thank you for the upload. They came through the blizzard, we offered them heat A roof ower their heids, dry shoes for their feet We wined them and dined them, they ate o' oor meat An slept in the house O' MacDonald Oh cruel is the snow that sweeps Glencoe An covers the grave o' Donald An cruel was the foe that raped Glencoe An murdered the house o' MacDonald

@wboyle9721

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you from a mcdonald Henderson descendant best from glasgow

@billmcdonald2436

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing the song with us. I hadn’t heard it.

@pollyparrot8759

Жыл бұрын

I too grew up singing the Massacre of Glencoe, one of the most haunting songs I have ever known.

@Strength-in-Union

Жыл бұрын

Aye... it pays to be a winner!

Bruce, this is your best one yet. Absolutely brilliant and perfectly delivered. What happened at Glencoe was state sanctioned murder, but what followed was state sanctioned propaganda. Which clearly survives to this day. As a half Campbell myself, thank you.

As a Campbell I've heard this story a thousand times but yet you make it as interesting as the first. Well done

@otisking5756

2 ай бұрын

I am also a Campbell and can relate

@matthewcaimbeul8722

Ай бұрын

We indeed did do it.

I and my wife travelled from Australia (2013) and Glencoe history was one big part of my bucket list. (also re-did our 33rd wedding vows in Neilston). Much of the family was lost there, and the family that was not present (lucky) survived and continued to live across the world. I ask my father many years ago, how I got the middle name of Campbell. His answer was short and simple. " So you will never forget the enemy within". Never forgotten never forgiven, after 331 years.

@paulb1912

7 ай бұрын

of course this happened

@hugohugo2832

7 ай бұрын

Ffs. Really???

Despite its beauty, Glencoe was a very eerie place when I visited. I couldn’t help but feel distant my entire trip.

@alanwilkin8869

2 жыл бұрын

Wonder why mr McDonald,

@hawfcut2394

2 жыл бұрын

There's something about Glencoe that tears through you, rips at the soul. I feel it every time I pass through. I felt it before I knew it's history.

@brucemcdonald4372

2 жыл бұрын

Same...

@Ubu987

2 жыл бұрын

@@brucemcdonald4372 My father visited Glencoe. He said it was a lonely and desolate place. "Áit uaigneach a bhí ann."

@alanthomson1227

2 жыл бұрын

Try visiting Culloden MOOR

I've lived in this earth 52 years, served in UK military seen may horrible things as a medic and my heart cracked and felt shame on the ancestors of the country I love at this video. Thank you sir for making it

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

@barbaradyson6951

2 жыл бұрын

Man is the most VICIOUS CREATURE ON THIS PLANET.

@fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617

11 ай бұрын

The Glencoe massacre was Scot’s killing Scot’s, the English had nothing to do with it.

I love the way that you re-frame these historical situations to put the viewer in the shoes of those who were there. As well, it makes viewers really think about the present and our place in it. Your storytelling is more than entertainment, it's evolutionary. Thanks Mr Fummey!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

9 ай бұрын

You're too kind

Great video! My ancestors are of Clan MacIntyre, a smaller clan who had ties to both sides, in very nearby Glen Noe. The MacIntyres who served the MacDonalds were pipers by trade, I believe. Anyway, Lady MacDonald was one of the survivors of the massacre and made it over the hills to MacIntyre lands who gave her and other survivors of the massacre shelter and hospitality. Tis possible she got there because a few Campbells looked the other way. According to clan legend, she got frostbite on the journey that was healed by the greatest treasure of Clan MacIntyre, the Healing Stone.

@citizendavid

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad the Macintyre's were on the right-side.

@HeatherKirksey-ls6gk

Жыл бұрын

My mother's family is also MacIntyre, and my parents, brother, and I are planning a trip to Glen Noe area later this spring. I appreciate learning the history of this area, even the terrible parts. And hello to a possible distant relative. :)

@elizabethsullivan7176

Жыл бұрын

@@HeatherKirksey-ls6gk My mom's family is McIntyre too (the different spelling is inconsequential) My 3xGreat grandfather, Archibald McIntyre, moved to Canada in the late 1700s. He was married to a Campbell. I wonder if the clan left Scotland around the time of the Highland Clearances, which did happen around that time. So many questions I have of the MacIntyre family tree, but so few answers to be found.

@honeymcdonald9120

Жыл бұрын

My Pops used to say - you can marry a sassanach - but never never a Campbell. This was because the sold out the clans at Culloden.

@FairladyZ2005

Жыл бұрын

@@elizabethsullivan7176 My family actually spells it McIntyre too but it's good to check both for genealogical purposes. I think my family left around the time of the clearances too. Though some were in America before that and some came by way of Northern Ireland as well.

The complex and deep moral questions that today’s outstanding offering present are vital and timeless. Thank you for again proving that the most necessary lessons that history can teach are the most uncomfortable ones.

@Lucius1958

2 жыл бұрын

Hence the current attempts to whitewash, or even ban, the teaching of history. God forbid anyone should be made 'uncomfortable'... else they might object when they are persuaded to repeat past atrocities.

@djonfonsteen6331

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lucius1958 exactly. Indeed it does and will continue while they own the media and many minds.

@cuckingfunt9353

2 жыл бұрын

I have reported this video because of it's hateful content.

@gerryphilly53

2 жыл бұрын

@@cuckingfunt9353 You can’t be serious. I suppose you’d make the same judgment of the statement “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”

@marklammas2465

2 жыл бұрын

This is the video I was hoping you'd be making. Excellent!

As an American Campbell I've heard the story of the centuries old feud betwixt our two storied clans but I'd never heard the story told in this light. Well done Bruce! Thank you for this enlightening perspective. If there is one thing that a life of work, study and military service has taught me, perspective is everything. Once again you have made an otherwise ordinary Saturday extraordinary. Thanks for the time you put into telling a story about my ancestors, it's quit humbling to be mentioned. Good day from America.

@iamkyleme

2 жыл бұрын

I dunno if its mentioned cus i went straight to the comments first but fun fact, theres a pub in scotland that wont let campbells in to this day :)

@asmith9040

2 жыл бұрын

@@iamkyleme ….the pub at or just past Rowardennan. Loch Lomond

@beingagainstfascismisagood104

2 жыл бұрын

Then there's the Macintosh apple feud

@iamkyleme

2 жыл бұрын

@@beingagainstfascismisagood104 i aint heard of that one before, i know what im googling tomorrow now :)

@Man_fay_the_Bru

2 жыл бұрын

Away with ye ya turncoat

Very well presented.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly!

This Guy has a lovely voice for listening to and keeping you interested

Loved this video and how it highlights that nothing has ever changed. The same things are going on today, and they're in the news being talked about by millions of people who are blind to the parallels. It doesn't take murder/massacre/slaughter to be like this event, it takes tyranny, and fools justifying their immoral actions by the old canard "just following orders".

@johnlow4064

9 ай бұрын

And yet. Watch it again, and ask yourself what you would do.

@justinheads5751

9 ай бұрын

@johnlow4064 why on earth do you think I would say I'd do the same thing? that's idiotic.

@johnlow4064

9 ай бұрын

@@justinheads5751 I'm saying, if you put yourself in the shoes of those soldiers, where the penalty for not following those orders is death, you have to recognise that they're in a very difficult situation.

The rage builds inside of me every time I hear this story

@SvenSvenson1

Жыл бұрын

Learn to let it go, it was a long time ago . The Romans invaded Cheltenham, we got over it.

@Strength-in-Union

Жыл бұрын

Aye... Chill out fella! If you got as rage-filled about everything, you'd get sectioned. 38 murdered in Glencoe... but how many Campbells were murdered by the MacDonalds in Inveraray? How many Chinese murdered by Japanese in Nanking? 300,000. How many Jews murdered by Nazis in concentration camps? 6,000,000. But I bet you have no 2nd thoughts buying Japanese or German products... and that was less than 80 years ago!

Kind of unrelated but can i say as a dirty southerner (londoner) i love scotland and scottish people and it was this channel that opened my eyes to the fact all history is imoortant and no ones history is more important that anothers.

At 61 years old you just changed my history, was brought up with the old story that they came in the night and murdered men women and children, did not like the Campbells, now however what you say makes sense, thank you for that, this is what we need more of, the truth.

@rianmacdonald9454

2 ай бұрын

43 - Was told the same story - but always thought there was more to it than what was told/known at the time. It never made sense to me - but this does make a lot more sense. english kings and their power plays - some things never change.

The phrase "We were only following orders." comes to mind :-(

A'reyt Bruce. Cracking video again. The location and filming as good as the narrative and presentation. Better than TV. If there is better on KZread then I would be surprised. The tale is well covered, so you had a bar to pass, but you cleared it like a pole vault over a high jump. Bit cold though, like when I visited there. You looked like you could do with that soup.

@stevenharrison1213

2 жыл бұрын

Only at the time of reading your comment did I realise that this video wasn't taken from the telly. I don't think I blinked watching that!

Not since Neil Oliver have I witnessed such a passionate oration , his ethical self questioning stands alone , absolutely breathtaking , thank you .

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome

I grew up hearing the Massacre of Glencoe and used to find it haunting and baffling. Thank you so much for giving this story colour and teaching me the nuances of the reality.

@jamiestewart48

Жыл бұрын

Much the same, yet it was the first time I discovered there are always good people. There were plenty of women and children who escaped that valley because some men were disgusted with their orders and looked the other way. Any time something terrible happens there's always at least one tiny moment of humanity that exists somewhere.

I am a lowland Scot, born in Paisely over 60 years ago, but now living in the US. I have visited Glencoe many times. Climbed Buchaille Etive Mor with my father and brother in my youth, and took Dad for a drive through Glencoe one Christmas the year before he passed. I have also been to Inveraray many times, loved the town and the setting, but steadfastly refused to go in the castle, until.... Until I took my American future wife there and she was astonished that I would 'show' her the castle, but not take her inside. I swallowed hard and gave the Campbell's my money. For those who might want to do a little reading on the subject of this video, consider the historical novels by John Prebble. He also covered Culloden and The Highland Clearances. I have read some criticism of Prebble's work, but I found his books hugely informative and would be interested to hear Bruce's opinion of Prebble's books on the Highlands. It's been forty years since I read them. I need to dig them out again.

@jsemplefelton5348

2 жыл бұрын

John Prebble is an impressive author. You should try Nigel Tranter.

I have heard the Glencoe story a hundred times and always the same. Your research shines a fresh light on the story which I welcome. Fantastic and interesting.

I’m a Japanese-American. My grandfather on my dad’s side was full Scottish and a Campbell (which makes me one 😅) and I’ve always heard the story but this was just fascinating! I absolutely love how this is framed. History is so complex and never black and white. Thank you for keeping history alive.

@Katie-bl8xi

Жыл бұрын

Yep. You are a Campbell. 😊

@philiprufus4427

Жыл бұрын

I had an uncle who passed out as a lieutenant in the Argylls before transfering to the Black( The Royal Highlanders) Watch where he was promoted to captain. The battilion was moved to India in 1944 but my late uncle,whom I saw regularily in the 1970s, never spoke of action. So I guess he never saw combat in the abhortive Japanese attack on India which was a nightmare campaighn by all accounts for both sides. My late uncle was born in London but married a Yorkshire lass and lived most of his life there. How did he end up in a Scottish Regiment ? His mother my late grandmother was Scottish,his father a Yorkshire veteran of the great war, spoke hignly of the Scottish Regiments,so he joined one. It might interest you to know that the Campbell Millitia( Later The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) were at Culloden in 1746,and not on Charlies side.Argylle men were like the Watch and The Royal Scots from Edinburgh usually on the stde of the crown. The Reality of History is The Bonnie Prince had as many Scotsmen fighting against him as for him. The Argyll men played a major part in the battle,turning the right flank of the Princes Army and Giving Barrels( The Buffs, The Royal East Kents) a chance to re deploy,from the full force of The Highland charge. The Argylls went on to become one of many famous Scottish Regiments in the British Army,and fought in many of its campaighns as did 'The Watch.'

@leewightman8619

Жыл бұрын

So your a samarui a cow boy and a highlander

@gscsurf

Жыл бұрын

This reminds me of the skittles commercial lol

@Anja_ShadowStryder

Жыл бұрын

❤

"Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” It is horrific to know what humans will do to each other.

When i was 18, i walked the West Highland way. Nothing in scotland impressed me more then the eerie beauty of glencoe and the plain of ranoch Moor.

Hell's teeth, Bruce; the presentation on these videos keeps on getting better and better. It is helped, no doubt, by the scenery. I'm surprised that the mission was kept so secret throughout the lead up to its execution. Thanks for adding so much detail and nuance to this familiar tale. I hope that you didn't get too cold on our behalf. Watching this, I was put in mind of Burns' poem "My luve has a red red nose."

@lynnemurphy114

2 жыл бұрын

Red nose because shes cold 💚😉

Ha, mine still accompany the name Campbell with a spit on the floor. And not just mine. This has resonated down the years. Cheers for your work.

You are a brilliant story teller. Thank you for sharing this content with the world!

A tragedy well narrated, thank you. This descendant of the Campbells of Argyll was privileged to enjoy the friendship of a McDonald and his family for many years. Shared experience and respect for each other is the way to build a society. And heal the scars of history.

@wboyle9721

2 жыл бұрын

I john I saw your comment my ancestors mcdonalds north of glencoe my grandmother a mcdonalds married a Henderson strong allies together big Henderson was the mcdonald piper at glencoe as a child I had a chip on my shoulder with the name Campbell but in later life it was a wider plot rule and divide and an excuse for the oath being late with the bad weather I'm glad you met nice mcdonalds best from glasgow

@asmith9040

2 жыл бұрын

@@wboyle9721 , with a name like Boyle you’ll be more Irish than Scottish.

@wboyle9721

2 жыл бұрын

Hi boyle is one of the Scottish clans from Ayrshire kelburn Castle there are two branches of the family related some went to Scotland some went to Ireland from boville in Normandy most of argyle came from Ireland good comment 👍

@asmith9040

2 жыл бұрын

@@wboyle9721 good answer 👍

The back story to this legendary tale is rich,,compelling. A true historian, you bring out the.inconvenient truths that expose the complexity of the event and the moral choices involved. Faced with such choices today, what would we do? It’s a great teachable moment and you do it like a born teacher. Thorough, well-paced, a story-teller. (Egan K. Teaching as Story Telling.)

Love your history knowledge, keep up the good work 👍

Brilliant story telling and analysis ... unlike most videos on KZread it's not jingoistic, partisan, finger pointing but reflective, thoughtful and invites us to make our own conclusions. SO refreshing and of course fascinating.

I'd thought I knew what happened at the Glencoe massacre but your personalisation of it makes it so much more real and horrific, it rivalled anything that's happened before or since in the British isles for sheer terror and barbarity.

Oh my word... the best and most complete description of the Glencoe Massacre I've ever heard..... we all know it was not quite so simple and many were used as pawns by others in power. To learn of so many other names involved willing and not so willing opens more can's filled with worms of history... but for a simple ordinary man who's clan is Donachie who would my clan had sympathies with?..... for me I can't find out as both Mac Donalds and Campbells had both taken land from my clan, and both had similar agents with allegiances. However in 21st century if you host someone under you roof you do not do them any harm.

@ianduncanson2840

2 жыл бұрын

Is Donachie the same as Donnachaidh which means Duncanson in Gaelic?

@iandonachie9549

2 жыл бұрын

@@ianduncanson2840 I believe so

Loved how you put it all together and gives great food for thought, knowing more peripheral information .Fantastic in your delivery . Love your take on it❤️

Magnificent stuff as always Bruce. Clear and accurate information presented in a concise and entertaining way. This should be required viewing,more power to you...

Superb telling of an historic atrocity. Measured, well paced and utterly gripping. Just fabulous. Thank you so much from a sassenach who now has a tiny bit more understanding of what drives the Scots.

Bruce, your style really creates a huge amount of emotion in your videos. “I was just following orders..”, “If I didn’t do it, I’d be killed…”, “He made me do it..” All used throughout World history when massacres have happened. Nazis desperately used this phrase, perhaps also Serbian and Croatian soldiers, or Hutu guerrillas. People used as pawns by others with bigger gangs.

@djonfonsteen6331

2 жыл бұрын

In regards to African nations.. It's important to remember who gave them the weapons and why billions of quite common diamonds are REALLY worth the tens of millions of deaths associated with them. Edit.. more people have died over these so called precious stones than all the wars combined since ww1. In fact.. more bullets have been fired since ww2 than all other wars combined. Who is financing these is ongoing atrocities?

@kenbrown2808

2 жыл бұрын

kind of why modern militaries usually have some clause stating that unlawful orders should not be followed.

@Trebor74

2 жыл бұрын

The defence of only following orders was only removed during WWII specifically in order to be able to prosecute nazi germans

@paavobergmann4920

2 жыл бұрын

@@kenbrown2808 I am sure that looks super nice on paper.

@kenbrown2808

2 жыл бұрын

@@paavobergmann4920 there are still plenty of people who will just follow orders, but it does give an out for people to refuse orders and be vindicated if they are found to be unlawful. wouldn't help if the commander is shooting people, of course, but it gives the opportunity to sit in the brig a bit rather than do something you think is wrong.

proud macdonald here- my family’s (and by extent the clan we all descended from) history is long and interesting. this was a great watch

"What would you have done?" That is a hard question. The ability to recognize tyranny, in all it's forms, is critical. The decision to resist tyranny is best made prior any encounter with the tyrant or it's minions. Embracing whatever sacrifice such resistance may require is part of the deal.

Another much-needed balanced account of an over-simplified event. Thank you.

@eamonnclabby7067

2 жыл бұрын

Quite agree.

Perfect!! I remember going to Glencoe, as a child and my dad told us the story of the massacre. He painted the picture as vividly as you have just done, although his historical knowledge was not as accurate. I remember one of my brothers - history obsessed since childhood - saying "It wasn't just the Campbells, though" and that notion being largely dismissed by my dad. I've been to Glencoe a few times since and it is beautiful, but there is something about the place which always makes me feel uneasy. In most places of historical interest, I have to think about the past and conjure images from my imagination. In Glencoe, the images come, even when you try to block them out.

@2H80vids

2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully written. It seems to be a sad fact that many places with tragic, violent histories are stunningly beautiful. In places like Glencoe, Culloden, Killiecrankie, it almost seems wrong to notice the sheer beauty of the place. It's nearly always man that has defiled these locations though, committing attrocities there. Glencoe has claimed many lifes itself though, without man's help, which perhaps explains 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 of the feelings that emanate from those mountains. I'm no poet and would consider myself fairly well grounded in reality but I've heard voices in the moaning gales, even beside the busy, main road and, to this day, I get a feeling of immense foreboding if I walk/drive through Glencoe. The terrible weather, that can afflict the glen, only makes it worse and, of course, these hideou crimes were commited in mid-winter.

@graceygrumble

2 жыл бұрын

@@2H80vids Yep, I totally get you. I've only been to Glencoe in the summer months - May to September - and each time the weather has been lovely and yet it still evokes feelings of dread. I'm not even that sensitive, to be honest. Although, I went to Amsterdam three times before, on the fourth attempt, I managed to visit Anne Frank's house without dissolving into a mess, outside. Ordinarily, I'm pretty phlegmatic; it's just that some places resonate with me and Glencoe is one of those places.

@eamonnclabby7067

2 жыл бұрын

@@graceygrumble very evocative, my cousins in Lochaber are descendants of the surviving McDonald's, here on the Wirral the site of the great battle of Brunanburh/Bromborough 937AD is largely intact, local author Tom Sleman has written extensively about hauntings around the site,you can read his weekly tales of the occult in the Wirral Globe website, peace and love from the wirral peninsula ,bounded by the mersey and the Dee and the Irish sea ,geography and rhyme...E

wow this has open my eyes for sure well done bruce keep it up your the best

You Sir are absolutely amazing. Please please keep telling us stories. Thank you !

Glencoe valley is one of my favourite places in scotland i definitely will visit glencoe valley . When i tell about the massacre that took place there in 1692 to my friends(here in india) they all laugh and say that only around 40 men it were killed , can't be called a massacre . When you're video came i showed to my friends and they finally understood and felt pity . Thank you sharing this video :)

@joanr3189

2 жыл бұрын

Only 40……

@alicemilne1444

2 жыл бұрын

I can understand your friends not getting the reference initially because of the many massacres that occurred in India with far greater bloodshed. But yes, Glencoe is a particularly perfidious and sad example of betrayed hospitality. The place is definitely worth a visit. The glen itself ("glen" means a steep-sided valley in Gaelic and Scots, so no need to add the word "valley" after Glencoe) is starkly beautiful in all weathers.

@crinolynneendymion8755

2 жыл бұрын

"Glencoe valley" is a tautology.

@brownwarrior6867

2 жыл бұрын

I totally get that as Glencoe by comparison to say the Massacre at Amritsar by General Dyer and his men is on a different scale.

I found your channel a while back my great grandfather was Scottish and I'm a cree native American and I've been watching trying to learn more of my grandfather's heritage and your videos are helping me learn thank you in my cree language hiehie means thank you.

@zeropointconsciousness

2 жыл бұрын

I am the other way around. Scottish with a Great Great Great Native American Grandmother. Nice to meet you. Coincidently name is Allan too. A'ho.

@allenbadge4232

2 жыл бұрын

Aye nice to meet you as well

@eamonnclabby7067

2 жыл бұрын

@@allenbadge4232 you might even have Irish relatives too, as Dave Allen RIP, the celebrated Irish comic and Bard was wont to say, may your God go with you...the Cherokee nation sent assistance to my ancestors in County Donegal at the height of the great famine...peace and love from the wirral...E

You've just given more insight, details and history about the massacre than the many books I've read., You've taken us to another level that's both thought provoking, educational, and disturbing. Thank you.

Well done, you provided a lot of depth to the story..... And made it more human!

Well done Bruce.

Possibly your best video yet Bruce. Informative and thought provoking.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

I love how this channel has so many fascinating topics and stories from history that I’ve never heard before. Always informative, well told and entertaining! It makes me more disappointed to not be from Scotland or the UK 😔

This was part of the history curriculum at my high school. Scottish history was a massive part of the curriculum at my high school. In my history exams before I left school, there was a lot of questions about this and the highland clearings.

Although there were true clan on clan massacres in the highlands, this one was a government job primarily. The clan stuff secondary at best. Good job with the characterization. Good job laying out the moral and ethical aspects as well.

Very good, and very thought provoking. The over simplification of history allows those in power to scapegoat and avoid blame.

This an excellent presentation. Very informative. Thank you.

Excellent, thoughtful analysis - thank you!

Another fantastic video Bruce! Sad to think of all the bloodshed and infighting this small island has had over the years and how many lives have been lost over the ambition and vanity of kings and queens. Your channel would make an excellent running series for television :)

This video is spectacular, stunning camera work and as always brilliantly presented! As a descendant of a line of Campbells, Glencoe is a damned dark legacy. I'm glad for the acknowledgement that it wasn't only the Campbells!

@28pbtkh23

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad to learn of that as well. It's good to learn that the truth of what happened was far more complicated than the long established myth. I learned today that there's no need for anyone to regard a Campbell with distaste, or for a Campbell to feel guilty. Finally, we can all enjoy Campbell's soup in peace and a clear conscience.

@tangerinedreamer50

2 жыл бұрын

I would of rather of died than take that order and turned against my fellow countrymen

My name is McConnell and we're descended from the McDonalds clan of Oban/Glencoe. I believe I could be descended from a survivor of this massacre which is chilling. I was born in Northern Ireland in 1937.

Myself and my grandchildren vist glencoe every year , the glencoe visitor centre is amazing, the first time we visited glencoe i burst into tears its beautiful, i buried my dads lighter on the hills of glencoe after he passed away....thanks for sharing, brilliant channel...are you sitting in the turff House at the glencoe visitor centre...,I remember being told about the glencoe massacre as a child I was traumatized...

"Let me tell you *THE* story". There's a certain chillingness to that introduction, given your usual "Let me tell you *A* story" - particularly knowing where the story goes before you've begun. Superb as always, Bruce; Alba gu brath.

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Tapadh leat

Wow Bruce, this is masterful storytelling, an incredible presentation of this tragic crime...the nuances, the detail you provide and the shades of grey therein...moves us on from the reduced version of these events

I have followed your videos off and on for a few years. Keep up the excellent work! This video is a masterpiece! You invest this massacre with a unique and insightful soul that is missing from many other accounts. The narrative is polished and powerful, bringing gravitas, respect, and humanity to the many individual players in this awful tragedy. The videography and editing have taken great strides that enhance the storytelling. In addition to explaining why this complex betrayal happened, you ask the piercing question to each of us: What would we have done?! This question remains compelling in our modern lives: What are we doing now in the presence of similar injustice? - Not enough.

Thank you for this. The facts behind the massacre are so much more complex and even more painful than the story as I often heard it. Without deconstructing these events, we are even more likely to become enmeshed in similar ones.

My dad told me a very abbreviated version of this when I was wee, I listened to the Corries with him, and I used to cry when"the massacre of Glencoe" played.. But I never knew the full story until now. Heartbroken... Thanks for real Scottish history Mr F💔

@rozbrown6826

2 жыл бұрын

@@joecmccluskey lol 😂😉

Thanks for the fascinating information. My father told me years ago that a Rankin or Rankins were killed at Glencoe, but I didn’t know there were several clans represented on both sides. I have read a couple of books on Scottish history, but find it hard to retain information, so your videos are great as you explain things really clearly and in an interesting way.

Even today you see this dilemma and wonder as it plays down through history and how the powers that be, have and can paint over as well shift some of the truth you spoke about. Thank you for your hard work😊

Great video. Good mix of info and analysis. Thank you :)

First of all I want to say thank you Bruce for all your work. You have a great gift. You mesmerize me with your stoy telling. Being a MacDonald Clanranald I have heard the storys growing up. I have no hatered towards the Cambells either and I grew up eating Cambell's tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. My uncle Married a Cambell and was ridiculed for it from some family. I have shared this video with my family and im sure my uncle is as much inspired as I am. Thanks again!

Don't comment that often on this platform but as a proud scotsman I really enjoy watching and learning about our history. You do a cracking job of telling and capturing us with your stories. Just wanted to say thank you and keep up the good work.

My wife and I took a hike there a few years back with a guide called Murray Walker. Still in awe of it’s beauty now and would love to go back one day. Thanks for the history lesson man.

What a brilliant video. Wonderful research and presentation.

Thank you for the lesson. Glencoe, one of my favourite places in Scotland. Everytime I have been though it has either been raining or snowing - a very atmospheric place indeed.

@octagon12011

2 жыл бұрын

You've been lucky with the weather then. If the sun comes out so do the midges.

Brilliantly told as ever. Love your perspective on historical events and the questions these/you raise. Cheers.

I loved your explanation and putting it in personal terms

well told wish i found channel sooner nearly watched all .amazing keep it up well done

Thank you so much Bruce for explaining the truly horrific event in our history that happened at Glen Coe. 🙏Hands up,in my ignorance, I believed that it was just a bloody battle that was fought between Clan Mcdonald and Clan Campbell. Thanks to you Bruce I understand now. Its truly thought provoking, what would of done?. Horrendous. Its coming up , think it's tomorrow, to the 330 anniversary of the massacre.You making this video is a respectful way to mark this moment in history. I'm not a Religious person but I shall light a candle to ALL the men, women and children that lost their lives that day, regardless of surname. Thank you once again.

@eamonnclabby7067

2 жыл бұрын

That is very noble of you Helen...as a fellow Irishman ( Dave Allen) was wont to say,..may your God go with you, peace and love from the wirral..my Uncle Archie RIP was a descendant of the McDonalds of Glencoe...

@Strength-in-Union

Жыл бұрын

​@@eamonnclabby7067Were they related to the MacDonalds of Glencoe?

Such a sad tale, as always told with sensitivity, insight and exquisite images. The notion to me that it was far less a Campbell vs McDonald tale than I had previously heard is fascinating. As to what I would have done, I know what I would have liked, but fear what I would have.

Brilliantly put. Delivery excellent

Thank you for this insight, it was greatly needed

@ScotlandHistoryTours

11 ай бұрын

You're welcome

The cinematography in this video is fantastic. You've really upped your game, mate!

@ScotlandHistoryTours

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks to Matt Ward

Love your videos from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

That was fascinating, thank you for sharing!

What great story telling Bruce. It too is in my future, post Covid travels. Thanks again mate.

3:59 "The authorities suspected over long that Hill had treated these Highlanders with too much humanity". Analyse for a moment the thinking described in that sentence, and you get to the root of the problem. Authority as a form of service versus authority as lust for domination. The problem hasn't gone away in 2022.

@leighcecil3322

2 жыл бұрын

Well written... this tyranny is still alive and well.... today..!.. nothing has changed...😔

@danielalexandermclachlanga3781

2 жыл бұрын

a needed protest is happening now, here , in Ottawa , Canada ... tha same behavior of supposed " authorities" appearances seem to change , not governments freedom

@rossstewart9475

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielalexandermclachlanga3781 Fit a shame that protest is itself a right granted by governments, as this allows the existence of said protests to be used by that power apparatus to demonstrate that it "welcomes" dissenting opinion. The 20th century saw that consolidation, and the 21st century has seen it's normalisation; Protest as a medium to change is a toothless tiger to the state - not that the alternative is much better. Alba gu brath.

@crinolynneendymion8755

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielalexandermclachlanga3781 An incredibily insensitive irrelevant ignoble ignorant comment.

As a member of the MacDonald clan, this was eye opening. My dad likes to talk about that day and how everyone should hate the Campbells, he needs to watch this and learn a little something. Thank you Bruce. Please don't stop making these videos, I've learned so much about where my family is from. And honestly it makes me want to go back to Scotland more and more every time you post.

@Lysdexia

2 жыл бұрын

If you do decide to return to Scotland, may I suggest you come in the summer? Or July as we call it.

@ayherdofturtles

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lysdexia we call it the same here in New York haha. And my first adventure was in March, I'll happily choose a warmer month. Especially because Ben Nevis beat me up and I demand a rematch

@CrusaderSports250

2 жыл бұрын

@@Lysdexia or may before midgey season😊.

@HarryFlashmanVC

2 жыл бұрын

It is far more complicated than 'hate Campbells'.. the reason why is because if you have Macdonald ancestry, or Macgregor or any number of clan ancestors, you will almost certainly also have Campbell ancestry. The clans intermarried as power play and political alliances ebbed and flowed. For example. Duncan MacGregor of Glenstrae is a direct ancestor of mine, he was executed along with his eldest son and brother at Finlarig Castle near Killin by Campbell of Finlairig... who was also a direct descendant of mine. Glencoe.. I am a direct descendent of MacIain, my 12th great grandfather, but I am also a direct Descendent of Robert Campbell of Glenlyon a 10th Great Uncle... History is very very complicated and if you are a Highlander or have Highland ancestry then you are almost certainly going to have ancestors from all over the Highlands and from many different Clans but almost certainly Macdonald and Campbell as they were the largest and most powerful Clans.

@bcamp6088

Жыл бұрын

Forgive us, hatred created this situation and only love can heal it. 🙏

New sub from Canada! wow, just fantastic, great narrating, I watched to the end. Great Job! Much Love from the Great North.🙌

Thank you. Good to hear a straight telling of what happened.

I loved your perspective on this, has completely changed my outlook on the events. Cheers Bruce!

Congratulations on reaching 100k subscribers Bruce, when I started watching a round April time last year there were only around 16k, great to see the effort you go to to produce these videos being recognised and the stories you share reaching a wider audience.

As a history these presentations are brilliant, educational, and insightful