The Battle of Golspie was a military engagement at the village of Golspie in northern Scotland on March 23, 1860, contested between the Royalist forces loyal to the King David V (made up primarily of soldiers drafted from the Lowlands or volunteers from the Chattan Confederation) and the rebel Sutherlands and a handful of fighters from other tribes. Dealt a defeat under cannon fire and outnumbered five-to-one, 320 men surrendered after 145 casualties on the beaches at Golspie while a small contingent retreated a mile away to the nearby Dunrobin Castle. Every prisoner was suddenly and swiftly coralled by the water and executed by the Royalists in a volley of gunfire and bayonetting, leaving no survivors. The murder of the prisoners had been personally ordered by the King, who believed that