Battle of Dunkeld

Battle of Dunkeld
Part of the Jacobite Rising
The Earl of Angus's Regiment (The Cameronians) at the defence of Dunkeld
Date 21 August 1689 Location Dunkeld, Scotland Result Decisive Scottish Government (Orange Royalists) Victory
Belligerents
Jacobite Royalists (Highlanders & Irish recruits)	Orange Covenantor Royalists (Cameronians)
Commanders and leaders
Alexander Cannon	William Cleland† George Munro
Strength
5,000	1,200
Casualties and losses
300	unknown, but significant
Location within Scotland

Coordinates: 56°33′54″N 3°35′06″W / 56.565°N 3.585°W / 56.565; -3.585

The Battle of Dunkeld (Scottish Gaelic: ) was fought between Jacobite clans supporting the deposed king James VII of Scotland and a government regiment of covenanters supporting William of Orange, King of Scotland, in the streets around Dunkeld Cathedral, Dunkeld, Scotland, on 21 August 1689 and formed part of the Jacobite rising commonly called Dundee's rising in Scotland. The battlefield is currently under research to be inventoried and protected by Historic Scotland under the Scottish Historical Environment Policy of 2009.

Following the death of Viscount Dundee in the Jacobite victory at the Battle of Killiecrankie command of the Jacobites was passed to Colonel Alexander Cannon, leader of the recruits from Ireland, as opposed to the veteran sixty-year-old Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel, one of the most formidable Highland chiefs. Cameron was so insulted he left, taking some of his clan with him. With the Scottish Privy council preparing to leave Scotland in the wake of an expected Jacobite onslaught, the council ordered the newly formed Cameronian regiment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel William Cleland, to move north from Perth and to hold on to Dunkeld at all costs.