Abstract
Scottish and Irish warfare from the mid-fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries has largely been neglected by European military historians. One reason for such neglect is that both Scotland and Ireland are sparsely populated and lie on the fringes of Europe, far out of the main current of historical development. Another is because the Gaels practised a non-traditional, alternative style of warfare that contrasted markedly with the traditional, uniform model represented by the ‘Great Powers’ of the early modern era: Spain, France, England, the Netherlands and Sweden, among others. The Scots and Irish combined mobility with devastating offensive shock power, thus falling outside Michael Roberts’s ‘military revolution’ paradigm.1
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