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Events on Tuesday 15 August 1645 1
1645Battle of KilsythMontrose's greatest victory gives him brief control of ScotlandThe Marquess of Montrose's Royalist Highland army crushed a Covenanter force at Kilsyth, giving Montrose temporary mastery of Scotland on behalf of King Charles I. The victory proved short-lived; Covenanter forces regrouped and crushed Montrose a month later at Philiphaugh.