Old travel Blog photograph of the Wishing Stone above the Pass of Killiecrankie, Perthshire, Scotland. The Battle of Killiecrankie, Gaelic: Blàr Choille Chnagaidh, also referred to as Rinrory by contemporaries, took place on 27 July 1689 during the First Jacobite uprising between a combined Scottish and Irish Jacobite force and those supporting the new government of King William III. The Jacobites achieved a stunning victory but suffered heavy casualties, including their leader. Towards the north end of Killiecrankie Pass is the famed Soldier's Leap, where one of Mackay's fleeing men managed to jump the foaming cataract between two fearsome rocks, and so escape the pursuing enemy during the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689.
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