Talk:Battle of Glen Shiel

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Hello, I've added a cleanup tag to this page. It is clearly a valiant attempt at an interesting article by a non-native English speaker, but it needs to be re-written in clearer, more concise prose. I have already done the section on the fall of Eilean Donan castle, and will gradually do the others if no one else does.

I think also that it could be shortened considerably, since this battle was really only a minor skirmish. The links to European politics are interesting though. Also one of the hills in Glen Shiel is still called "The Peak of the Spaniards". Thruston 12:29, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Just been trying to work on this. I know little about this battle (dim memories), but i've re-phrased a lot of the it to counteract the original writer being a speaker of ESL, and italicised ship names. Pydos 12:38, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

I added a load more detailed infomation the otherday including the battle box, who was on each side; Government army and Jacobite army and details of the battle itself.mjgm84 17:24, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi. The claim that "it was the last close engagement of British and foreign troops on mainland British soil" is contradicted by the presence of French troops in the Young Pretender's campaign (see Jacobite rising). At Culloden there is actually a "French Stone" (see it here) commemorating the French Regiment that fought there. 87.6.59.109 19:12, 10 August 2007 (UTC)