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Oliver's army AND THEIR Fight in Fife.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Mail (London) ...the coming battle as lions led by donkeys...This was the Culloden of the South...fought. As for Culloden, nothing is...And while Culloden is a great...suppression and slaughter of Bonnie Prince...battle's ...

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