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Anglo-Saxons, in considerable numbers, penetrated northwards, and by the end of the thirteenth century the Lowlanders were a much less pure race than, except in the
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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These were his people; the Highlanders, Lowlanders, the Scots.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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Not sure that the Atholl brigade should be classed as Lowlanders.
SYW Association Convention Der Alte Fritz 2009
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These various prepossessions, joined to the less warlike habits of the Lowlanders, and their imperfect knowledge of the new and complicated system of discipline for which they had exchanged their natural mode of fighting, placed them at great disadvantage when opposed to the Highlander in the field of battle.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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Lowlanders might have joined them to the mercy of an offended and predominant enemy.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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Midway this space was erected a rude gibbet, on which hung five dead bodies, two of which from their dress seemed to have been Lowlanders, and the other three corpses were muffled in their Highland plaids.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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Before that period, the Lowlanders were as constantly engaged in war as the mountaineers, and were incomparably better disciplined and armed.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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Lowlanders, who lay more remote, and out of reach of these depredations, were influenced by the exaggerated reports circulated concerning the
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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In every other point their line was penetrated at the first onset; and this advantage once obtained, the Lowlanders were utterly unable to contend at close quarters with their more agile and athletic enemies.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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Neither can it be denied, that, in the material points of military habits and warlike spirit, the Lowlanders of the seventeenth century had sunk far beneath their Highland countrymen.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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