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Battle of Aberdeen II - 1644
Commanders and leaders Royalist Irish and Highland Scots
Lord Montrose, Alasdair MacColla, James Hay, Sir Nathaniel Gordon, Sir William Rollock
Parliamentarian Scots Covenanters Lord Burleigh, Lord Lewis Gordon, Forbes of Craigievar, Forbes of Boyndlie
Resul;t Royalist Victo
The Battle of Aberdeen was an engagement in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms which took place between Royalist and Covenanter forces outside the city of Aberdeen on 13 September 1644.
On the morning of the 13th, the Covenanter force under Lord Burleigh marched out of the town to meet the attackers. The Royalists sent a messenger and drummer under a flag of truce to demand the surrender of the city. Aberdeen's chief citizens and guild leaders received this ultimatum near the present day site of Justice Mill Lane.
They rejected this demand. Some Covenanters fired on the Royalist party, killing the drummer. Montrose was so angered by this that he immediately ordered an attack and issued the order not to spare any of the enemy.
Lord Gordon on the Covenanters left wing attacked with his cavalry. Montrose moved his horse to assist on the right flank, and this small group of 44
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