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an australian walks up to a bar

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El ejercicio físico, fuente de salud y bienestar...

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Cressida Campbell, “Gingko”, 2017, Woodblock (watercolour paint on incised plywood), 81 x 60 cm

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Dale Bissland (Scottish Artist, born 1985)

"Red Moon Rising", 2021.

Oil on Panel, 60 × 46 cm.

Private Collection.

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On 22nd July 1680 the radical Presbyterian Richard Cameron attempted to lead an uprising against the King.

The second of today's battles is another little known one and another Scot on Scot affair, the Battle of Airds Moss.

It's another skirmish more than a battle in my opinion, but the Covanenters paid a high price.

On the day of the battle, a party of Government Troops, commanded by David Bruce of Earshall, was on the Cumnock-Muirkirk Road, when they spotted a group of Covenanters. There were around 112 Government men, with a smaller number of Covenanters.

Trying to get creditable details on these battles are sometimes difficult, there are a few differing accounts regarding this one. Even nowadays we have so much bias, depending on where your loyalties lie. One source tells me that 9 covenanters were killed - 5 taken prisoner, 2 of whom died of their wounds, the other 3 were taken to Edinburgh and executed, yet another source actually quotes records from Edinburgh Tolbooth regarding two of the prisoners being released, the details of one are...

"The said day the s[ai]ds Lords Commissioners of Justiciary having examined John Crawfoord att the old castle of Reyle anent James Wallance his servant who deponed That the s[ai]d James wes hirding his sheep the werie tyme off the conflict betuixt the pairtie of the Kings forces and Camerons pairtie and that he never used to frequent conventickles and that he sought leive from him to goe sie his brother who wes wounded in that skirmish They thairfor ordaine the said James Wallance to be sett at libertie . . ."

What definitely is known about the skirmish is that Richard Cameron and his brother Michael were killed.

Richard Cameron's was a Covanenter leader, his name was adopted as the name of the famous Cameronian Regiment. His brother Michael is best known for reading the Sanquhar Declaration, which basically was a declaration of war calling, Charles Stuart ‘a tyrant and usurper’ both had a heavy bounty on their heads, Richard's was a hefty 5,000 merks.

Cameron's sword is held by The Museum of Scotland, but unfortunately is among the many artefacts that is not on display at the moment.

A memorial marks the spot at Airds Moss, in East Ayrshire, which is a Special Area of Conservation.

The pics are the Covenanters memorial and Grave at the Battle site in Ayrshire.

The Bonnie Dundee website here, has a bit more on the circumstances and outcome.....https://bonniedundee1689.wordpress.com/.../airds-moss.../

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