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Author: John Stewart (of Ardvorlich.) Publisher: ISBN: Category : Cameron family Languages : en Pages : 390
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Family history of the Cameron clan between about 1400 and the present. Includes notes on the Clan Cameron associations at home and abroad, a chronological table of the chiefs of the Clan Cameron, and brief biographical sketches of significant Cameron individuals.
Author: Charles Ian Fraser Publisher: ISBN: Category : Clans Languages : en Pages : 48
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The Clan Cameron was located in and around Lochaber. A very warlike clan, the Camerons carried on a feud with a number of the neighboring clans, particularly Clan Macintosh.
Author: James Logan Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781015527003 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Author: John Cameron Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230470993 Category : Languages : en Pages : 48
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... and interred at Kilmallie, close by the great Sir Ewen and other Cameron Chiefs. In elegant language, the inscription on an obelisk tells that it was raised to the memory of "Colonel John Cameron, eldest son of Sir Ewen Cameron of Fassiefern, who, during twenty years of active military service, with a spirit that knew no fear and shunned no danger, accompanied or led in battles, sieges, and marches, the 92ud Regiment of Scottish Highlanders, always to honour, almost always to victory. Reader, call not his fate untimely, who, thus honoured and lamented, closed a life of fame with a death of glory." This inscription is from the pen of Sir Walter Scott, who again and again in poetry and prose expressed his admiration of " brave Cameron," " The gallant Fassiefern." His fall was lamented by his great commander Wellington on public grounds as well as on those of private friendship, and the country conferred permanent honour on his family in testimony of his achievements. The following are the references to him by Sir Walter Scott: -- "And Cameron, in the shock of steel, Died like the offspring of Lochiel." --Field of Waterloo. "Where through battle, rout, and reel, Through storm of shot and hedge of steel, Led the grandson of Lochiel, The valiant Fassiefern. Through steel and shot he leads no more; Low laid 'mid friends' and foemen's gore; But long his native lake's wild shore, And Sunart rough and wild Ardgour And Morven long shall tell; And proud Ben Nevis hear with awe, How at the bloody Quatre Bras Brave Cameron heard the wild hurrah Of conquest as he fell." --Dance of Death. Colonel Cameron is the subject of a poem by Professor Blackie, which I transcribe: -- "At Quatre Bras, when the fight was hot, Stout Cameron stood and eyed the...