16 May 1689: In the first military engagement of the Jacobite Rising of 1689, Scottish government forces attacked around 300 Jacobites on Loup Hill at the western end of West Loch Tarbert in northern Kintyre and scattered them, with many fleeing to their boats and sailing to Gigha.
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