Harlaw

* 1411 – Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.

* July 24 – The Battle of Harlaw is fought between Donald of Islay, Lord of the Isles and an army commanded by Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar.

This resulted in the Battle of Harlaw 1411, where the Clan Ross fought as Highlanders in support of the Lord of the Isles against an army of Scottish Lowlanders who supported the Duke of Albany.

Concluding with the Battle of Harlaw.

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# REDIRECT Battle of Harlaw

There have been three well known battles in the town: The Battle of Inverurie ( 1308 ), the Battle of Harlaw ( 24 July 1411 ) between Donald of Islay, Lord of the Isles ( MacDonald ) and an army commanded by Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar ; and the Battle of Inverurie ( 1745 ) during the Jacobite Rebellion of that year.

Inverurie Loco Works F. C., playing their matches at Harlaw Park, are the local Highland League football team and Aberdeen F. C.

William, the 4th Earl of Ross, was present with his clan at the Battle of Bannockburn ( 1314 ), and almost a century later ( 1412 ) the castle of Dingwall, the chief seat on the mainland of Donald, Lord of the Isles, was captured after the disastrous fight at Harlaw in Aberdeenshire, which Donald had provoked when his claim to the earldom was rejected.

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* Battle of Harlaw

Site of the Battle of Harlaw, where in 1411 Domhnall of Islay, Lord of the Isles | Donald McDonald, 2nd Lord of the Isles fought the Stewarts to a bloody standstill.

At the Battle of Harlaw ( known as " Red Harlaw " on account of its savagery ) on 24 July 1411, losses were heavy on both sides, though McDonald's eventual withdrawal allowed the Stewarts to claim a strategic victory.

She challenged him to tell her the opening line of Child ballad no 163, " The Battle of Harlaw ", and he complied.

It is sometimes stated that she made the first recording of " The Battle of Harlaw " but this is not so.

Harlaw Academy is a six year comprehensive secondary school situated 200 yards from the junction of Union Street and Holburn Street in the centre of Aberdeen, Scotland.

Harlaw originally had a primary department but this was phased out and the last primary pupils moved up in 1971.

Harlaw become co-educational in 1974.

The other arose from the planning of the city's area comprehensive system which brought about in 1970 the changing of the school's name to Harlaw Academy and the first unselective entry, of girls only, from four neighbouring primary schools.

On McNab's retirement in July 1971, Alexander Chalmers, B. Sc., became Headmaster and early in the new session plans began to be made for Ruthrieston Secondary School to become part of Harlaw Academy the following session, ceasing to be a separate entity on the retiral of Mr. Garden on 24 November 1972.

Since the incorporation of Ruthrieston Secondary School, Harlaw Academy was now a co-educational, comprehensive secondary school and still is to this day.

In 2010, Harlaw Academy was threatened with closure, as part of the council's cutbacks of over £ 50m worth of debt.

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