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Article: Millennium life; Montrose the magnificent.(Features)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- June 5, 1999
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HIS name may not be as well known as that of Robert the Bruce and William Wallace - but James Graham, Earl of Montrose, was one of the greatest heroes Scotland has ever produced.
Like the Bruce and Wallace, Montrose was a brilliant strategist and fearless fighter who had the gift of being able to inspire his men to dazzling victories.
But while Scotland's two great medieval warriors were patriots who fought exclusively for their country, Montrose fought for his king and the Royalist cause of the Stewart monarchs.
James Graham's campaigns on behalf ...