List: Scottish generals

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•  William Wallace

  Sir William Wallace was a Scottish knight and landowner who is known for leading a resistance during the Wars of Scottish Independence and is today remembered in Scotland as a patriot and national hero. Along with Andrew Moray, he defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, and became Guardian of Scotland, serving until his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk.

  

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•  James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton

  James Douglas-Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and 1st Duke of Brandon KG KT (11 November 1658 – 15 November 1712) was a Scottish nobleman, the Premier Peer of Scotland and Keeper of the Palace of Holyroodhouse. He was a Master of the Great Wardrobe, Master-General of the Ordnance, Ambassador, and Colonel-in-Chief of his regiment.

  

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•  John Graham, 1st Viscount of Dundee

  John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee (c. 21 July 1648 - 27 July 1689) was a Scottish soldier and nobleman, a Tory and an Episcopalian. Claverhouse is remembered by history in two distinct characters. Unfavourable records of his persecution of the Covenanters, when he was responsible for policing south-west Scotland during and after the religious unrest and rebellion of the 1670s and 80s, led to Presbyterian historians dubbing him "Bluidy Clavers".

  

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•  James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose

  James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (25 October 1612 – 21 May 1650) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier, who initially joined the Covenanters in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, but subsequently supported King Charles I as the English Civil War developed. From 1644 to 1646, and again in 1650 he fought a civil war in Scotland on behalf of the King and generally referred to in Scotland as simply the Great Montrose.

  

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•  Patrick Gordon

  Patrick Leopold Gordon (March 31, 1635 – November 29, 1699) was general of the Imperial Russian army, of Scottish origin. He was descended from a Scottish family of Aberdeenshire, holders of the small estate of Auchleuchries, the family were connected with the house of Haddo.

  

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•  Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll

  Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, 8th Earl of Argyll, chief of Clan Campbell, (1607 – 27 May 1661) was the de facto head of government in Scotland during most of the conflict known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. He was the most influential figure in the Covenanter movement that fought for the Presbyterian religion and what they saw as Scottish interests during the English Civil War of the 1640s and 1650s.

  

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•  Andrew Moray

  Andrew Moray, also known as Andrew de Moray, Andrew of Moray, or Andrew Murray, was a prominent military leader of patriotic forces during the Scottish Wars of Independence. He was responsible for leading the rising in northern Scotland in the summer of 1297 against the rule of King Edward I of England and successfully regained control of this area for King John of Scotland.

  

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•  James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

  Sir James Douglas (also known as Guid Sir James and the Black Douglas), (1286 – August 25, 1330), was a Scottish soldier and knight who fought in the Scottish Wars of Independence. He was a son of Sir William Douglas the Hardy, who had been a supporter of William Wallace (the elder Douglas died in 1298, a prisoner in the Tower of London). His mother was Elizabeth Stewart, the daughter of Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland.

  

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•  David Leslie, Lord Newark

  David Leslie, Lord Newark (c. 1600-1682) was a cavalry officer and General in the English Civil War and Scottish Civil Wars. The son of the 1st Earl of Lindores, he fought for the Swedish army of Gustavus Adolphus as a professional soldier during the Thirty Years' War.

  

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•  Hugh Mackay

  Hugh Mackay (c. 1640 – 3 August 1692) was a Scottish general best known for his service in the Revolution of 1688.

  

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•  William Baillie

  

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•  George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly

  George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly (1514 – 28 October 1562), was a Scottish nobleman.

  

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•  Tam Dalyell of the Binns

  General Tam (Thomas) Dalyell (Dalziell, Dalziel or Dalzell) (1615 – 1685) was a Scottish Royalist General in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Also known by the soubriquets, Bluidy Tam and the Muscovite de'il. Dalyell was born in Linlithgowshire; the son of Thomas Dalyell of the House of the Binns, Linlithgowshire; head of a cadet branch of the family of the Earls of Carnwath, and of Janet, daughter of the 1st Lord Bruce of Kinloss, Master of the Rolls in England.

  

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•  John Erskine, 22nd Earl of Mar

  John Erskine, 23rd and de jure 6th Earl of Mar, KT (1675 – May 1732), Scottish Jacobite, was the eldest son of the 22nd Earl of Mar (who died in 1689), from whom he inherited estates that were heavily loaded with debt. By modern reckoning he was 23rd Earl of Mar of the first creation (from c. 1114) and de jure 6th Earl of Mar of the seventh creation (from 1565). He is sometimes also termed the 11th Earl of Mar in the Scottish Peerage, which was reckoned from the second creation (from 1426).

  

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•  Lord George Murray (general)

  Lord George Murray (4 October 1694 – 11 October 1760) was a Scottish Jacobite general, most noted for his 1745 campaign under Bonnie Prince Charlie into England. Lord George was the sixth son of John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, who was the chief of Clan Murray, by his first wife, Catherine, daughter of the 3rd Duke of Hamilton.

  

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•  George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton

  Lieutenant-General George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton KT (1635 – 20 March 1692) was a Scottish nobleman, and soldier. The son of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas and his second wife Lady Mary Gordon of Huntly, Douglas was the younger brother of the William Douglas, 1st Earl of Selkirk. He married Anne Wheatley (died 25 April 1691), daughter of Robert Wheatley of Bracknell.

  

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•  Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar

  Alexander Stewart (c. 1375 – 1435), Earl of Mar.

  

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•  Gille Coluim the Marischal

  Gille Coluim the Marischal was an official of the Scottish crown in the second half of the 12th century. His name occurs in the witness lists of two extant charters, both issued by King William of Scotland at Perth, which indicates that he was probably a native of somewhere in southern Perthshire. He seems in fact to have been the lord of Madderty in Strathearn. In either 1172 or 1173 he witnessed King William's grant of Ardross to Merleswain mac Cholbaín, a relative of the mormaer of Fife.

  

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•  James Lumsden

  James Lumsden (1598–1660) was a Scottish soldier who served in the Swedish army of Gustavus Adolphus during the Thirty Years' War, and subsequently commanded Scottish Covenanter armies. Having commanded a regiment of Scottish soldiers in Swedish service, and fought at the Battle of Lutzen, he left the Swedish Army in 1639 like many Scottish officers and returned to Scotland.

  

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•  George Mackenzie, 2nd Earl of Seaforth

  George Mackenzie, 2nd Earl of Seaforth (died 1651) was a Highland clan chief and Scottish nobleman, who played an equivocating role in Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

  

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