Murder & homicide · 1752 · 1750s

The Appin Murder

On 14 May 1752 Colin Campbell of Glenure, a government factor known as the Red Fox, was shot and killed while travelling through the Appin district of the west Highlands. The killing took place during a period of continuing political and clan tensions following the Jacobite rising of 1745.

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