The Battle of Kilsyth took place outside Stirling, in a
confrontation between William Baillie's Covenanter troops, and the
Marquis of Montrose's Royalists. Even though the Royalists were
outnumbered, disorder in the Covenanter ranks gave their enemy the
advantage, and approximately three quarters of the Covenanters were
killed. The Royalist victory at Kilsyth sealed their hold over the
whole of Scotland, and Montrose proceeded to Glasgow to call a
Parliament in the name of King Charles. However, the Royalist
victory in Scotland was rather undermined by the fact that -
unbeknownst to Montrose at that point - the King's main army in
England had just suffered a decisive defeat at Naseby.
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