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Battle of Auldearn - 1645
Commanders and leaders: Royalist Irish Highland Scots
Scots Covenanters: Sir John Hurry
Result: Royalist Victory
The Battle of Auldearn was an engagement of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It took place on 9 May 1645, in and around the village of Auldearn in Nairn.
It resulted in a victory for the royalists led by the Earl of Montrose and Alasdair MacColla over a Covenanter army under the command of Sir John Hurry.
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