Altimarlach only a mile up from Wick. I wonder whether we can take this
stroll while we are there for the 2000th?
Laurel
-----Original Message-----
From: Rory Sinclair <rory.sinclair@accglobal.net>
To: sinclair@jump.net <sinclair@jump.net>
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: Ambush at Altimarlach
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Donald Sinclair <dmsin@mpx.com.au>
>To: sinclair@jump.net <sinclair@jump.net>
>Date: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 7:50 PM
>Subject: Re: Ambush at Altimarlach
>
>
>>
>>Thanks David
>>Do you know the story behind the actual fight. eg:
>>Why were the Sinclairs hungover.?
>>Did they know the Campbells were in the area.? I take it these were
>>Campbells from Argyll. So they were a long way from home, how did they
>sneak
>>up to Caithness?
>>Where is Altimarlach in Caithness.?
>>Slainte Mhor
>>Donald Sinclair
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David & Gloria Bouschor <haggis@skypoint.com>
>>To: sinclair@jump.net <sinclair@jump.net>
>>Date: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 3:01 AM
>>Subject: Re: The Sinclair's March
>>
>>Hi Donald:
>I see you are on this site quite a bit. I'm new but glad to talk to you
any
>old time.
>Altimarlach is about 1 mile up river from Wick. I have been there twice.
>There is a Celtic cross on the spot where the battle is reputed to have
>taken place. There is no proof of the hung-over story but supposedly the
>Campbells let a few baggage horses carrying whiskey get captured by the
>Sinclairs the night before the battle. The Campbells did not sneak up to
>Caithness, they simply marched up to take what Grey Fox Campbell believed
>to be rightly his, ie the Earldom of Caithness bequeathed to him by George
>6th Earl who had sold his birthright for cash. The people of Caithness
>made life difficult for the Campbells and George Sinclair of Kiess
>petitioned Parliament to recover the title for the Sinclairs. Within a 3
>years he succeeded and became Earl of Caithness. Campbell of Glenorchy was
>made Earl of Breadalbane as compensation.
>>>
>>>Hi Donald,
>>> The Carls was very derisive of the Sinclairs because the wore trews
>>>when the were defeated by the Campbells at Altimarlach. The hungover
>>>Sinclairs were ambushed as the crossed the River Wick. It is called
>>thieves
>>>Burn as the Campbells looted the dead bodies after they killed them. The
>>>tune is not usally played by Sinclair pipers.
>>> Yours aye, David (a piper)
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Donald Sinclair <dmsin@mpx.com.au>
>>>To: sinclair@jump.net <sinclair@jump.net>
>>>Date: Saturday, April 10, 1999 7:13 AM
>>>Subject: Re: The Sinclair's March
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>A h-uile duine
>>>>Juli there is a piping tune called "The Carles wi' the Breeks"
>>>>It's a Campbell tune but it is suppose to be a direct reference to the
>>>>Sinclairs.
>>>>It was made around the time of the Sinclair / Campbell feud in the
>>>>1670's.The story goes that the Campbells had never seen any men wearing
>>>>trousers ( Breeks)
>>>>before, and it gave them a bit of a laugh.
>>>>
>>>>"Spaidsearachd Mhic nan Cearda" My gaelic dictionary translates this as
>>>"The
>>>>Sinclairs Strut"!!
>>>>
>>>>Donald Sinclair
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Juli <kalwa@cwix.com>
>>>>To: sinclair@jump.net <sinclair@jump.net>
>>>>Date: Friday, April 09, 1999 11:25 AM
>>>>Subject: The Sinclair's March
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Hello all -
>>>>>
>>>>>Hoping someone can help me. Looked on our web page but did not see any
>>>>>reference to the pipe music for Clan Sinclair. Robert Bain's The Clans
>>>and
>>>>>Tartans of Scotland lists the pipe music as "Spaidsearachd Mhic nan
>>>>Cearda"
>>>>>(The Sinclair's March.)
>>>>>
>>>>>Does anyone know the correct translation of the Gaelic? I have seen a
>>>>>reference to the Mac-na-Cearda being an Ancient Argyll family possibly
>>>>>relating to the McNockairds.
>>>>>
>>>>>Does anyone have a recommendation for a CD with "The Sinclair's March"
>on
>>>>>it?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks in advance -
>>>>>
>>>>>Juli Anderson
>>>>>Princeton, NJ - but Forever Argyll
>>>>>
>>>>>
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