half-merkland

Updated: May 4, 2025

They were, for the main part, the Campbells of the shire: of them alone the chief could muster 5000 half-merkland men at a first levy, all capable swordsmen, well drilled and disciplined soldadoes, who had, in addition to the usual schooling in arms of every Gael, been taught many of the niceties of new-fashioned war, countermarch, wheeling, and pike-drill.

Neil Munro - John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn