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Jacobite clans clashed with a regiment of Covenanters in the streets of Dunkeld, Scotland.
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17th to 18th-century British political ideology
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Battle of Dunkeld
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Covenanters
17th-century Scottish Presbyterians
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Dunkeld
Town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland
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