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Eachuinn Ruadh nan cath Maclean |
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- Sixth Chief
- Known as Red Hector of the Battles
- born c 1368
- When Donald of the Isles marched across Scotland in 1411 to enforce his wife's claim to the great northern earldom of Ross, the second-in-command of his army was his nephew, Lachlan Lubanach's son, Eachuin ruadh nan cath, Red Hector of the Battles. In the great conflict at Harlaw in which the campaign ended, the Maclean Chief engaged in a hand to hand encounter with Irvine of Drum, a powerful Deeside baron. After a terrific combat the two fell dead together, and in token of that circumstance, for centuries the chiefs of the two families when they met were accustomed to exchange swords.
- Died 1411 (Killed at the Battle of Harlow in a duel with Alexander Irvine)
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