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A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans

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CAPTURE OF PERTH. 3il<br />

some <strong>of</strong> whom afterwards served in Montrose's army. Tiie loss on tlie<br />

side <strong>of</strong> Montrose appears to have been very trifling, but we cannot sup-<br />

pose, with some writers, that none <strong>of</strong> his men were killed. By this victory,<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> subsequent capture <strong>of</strong> Perth, which he entered <strong>the</strong> same<br />

day, Montrose was enabled to equip his army with all those warlike<br />

necessaries <strong>of</strong> which it had been so remarkably destitute in <strong>the</strong> morning,<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong> covenanters left him an abundant supply.

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