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Seumas (James) Mackintosh,

Chief of Clan Mackintosh, was killed at the memorable battle of Hatlaw, which was fought on the eve of the feast of St.
James the Apostle, July 24, 1411. "The Highlanders, who were ten thousand strong, rushed on with the fierce shouts and yells
which it was their custom to raise in coming into batle, the English knights meeting them with ponderous maces and battle axes, which inflicted ghastly wounds upon their half armed opponents. The Constable of Dundee was slain, and the Highlanders, encouraged by his fall, wielded their broadswords and Lochaber axes with murderous effect, seizing and stabbing the horses and pulling down thier riders, whom they dispatched with their daggers. The Highlanders left 900 men dead on the field of battle
including the Chiefs Maclean and Mackintosh." The loss of the Highlanders was very small compared with that sustained by the Lowlanders. It was the final contest between the Celt and Teuton for Scottish independence, and from the ferocity with which it was waged and the dismal spectacle of war and bloodshed exhibited to the country, it made at the time an inconceivable impression on the national mind and is indelibly fixed in the music and poetry of Scotland.
A march called the "Battle of Harlaw," continued to be a popular down to the time of William Drummond, of Hawthornden, the eminent Scottish poet (b. 1585, d. 1649).
A spirited ballad on the same event, describing the meeting of the armies and the deaths of the Cheifs, in no gnoble strain, is still recited by the bards.

'There was not, sin' King Kenneth's days,
Sic strange intestine cruel strife
In Scotlande seen, as ilk man says,
Where monie likelie lost their life:
Whilk made divorce 'tween man and wife,
And monie children fathersell,
Whilk in this relm has been full rife:
Lord, help these lands! our wrongs redress!'

"In July, on Saint James his evin,
That four-and -twenty dismal day,
Twelve hundred, ten score and eleven
Of years sin' Christ, the soothe to say;
Men will remember, as they may,
When thus the veritie they knaw;
And monie an ane will mourne for aye
The brim battle of the Harlaw."


Child of Seumas Mackintosh is:
Allister Ciar16 Mackintosh, born in Scotland; died in Scotland.

Birth	Bet 1369 and 1404	Scotland, United Kingdom
Marriage	Bet 1388 and 1410
Death	24 Jul 1411	in the Battle of Harlaw - Scotland, United Kingdom

Child

Allistar Ciar MACINTOSH (1392 - 1419)

Father

Shaw Mor MACINTOSH (1344 - 1405)