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==Clan Wars==
*Clan MacKenzie fought at the [[Battle of Inverury]] in 1308.
*Bealach nam Broig 1452, A force of [[Clan Munro|Munros]] and Dingwalls met north-west of BenWyvis. Their enemy was a force of MacKenzies and their followers who had with them an important [[Clan Ross|Ross]] hostage, who was in fact the Earl of Ross's son. The Munros and their allies rescued the Ross hostage and almost completly exterminated their ememies. However the Munros victory came at a loss as around 140 Dingwalls and their leader William of Dingwall were killed. Also 11 Munros of Foulis were killed including their Chief thus the Chieftenship was left to a baby still lying in his cradle.[http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Humanities/FSCNS/Scots_NS/Hty_Sct/Conflict_Clans/CC/Bealach_Broige.html]
*Battle of Blar-na-Pairc, 1477; The Lord of the Isles had resigned the Earldom of Ross into the Kings hands. After this the province was continually molested with incursions by the Islanders into the MacKenzie territory. A [[Clan MacDonald|MacDonald]] cousin called Gillespick invaded the MacKenzie country with great hostility. The MacKenzies assembled their army and met the invading Islanders by the River of Conon, about two miles from Brayle, where there ensued a sharp and cruel skirmish. The Clan MacKenzie fought so hardly and pressed the enemy so, that in the end Gillespick [[Clan MacDonald|MacDonald]] was overthrown and chased, the most part of his men being slain or drowned in the river of Conon. [http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Humanities/FSCNS/Scots_NS/Hty_Sct/Conflict_Clans/CC/Blar_na_Pairc.html]
*At the [[Battle of Sauchieburn]] in 1488 the Clan MacKenzie fought on the side of [[King James III]].
*Raid on Ross-shire 1491, Ewen Cameron XIII Chief of [[Clan Cameron]] and a large body of Camerons, joined by Alexander of Lochalsh, Clan Ranald of Garmoran and Lochaber and the [[Chattan Confederation]] - who they must have made peace with on a raid into the county of Ross-shire. During the raid they clashed with the '''Clan MacKenzie of Kintail'''. They then advanced from Lochaber to Badennoch where they were even joined by the [[Clan MacKintosh]]. They then proceeded to Inverness where they stormed the Royal Castle and MacKintosh placed a garrison in it. The Lords of Lochalsh appear at this time to have had strong claims upon the Camerons to follow them in the field. They were superiors under the Lord of the Isles of the lands of Lochiel in Lochaber, in addition to the claims of a close marriage alliance (Ewen married a daughter of Celestine of Lochalsh). This would serve to explain the quite unusual mutual participation under a common banner between the Camerons and Mackintoshes in this raid.
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*Battle of Pinkie 1547. The Clan MacKenzie were among the clans who fought the English at the [[Battle of Pinkie Cleugh]] in 1547. The MacKenzie Chief was captured by the English. This was the last major battle between the Royal Scottish and Royal English armies.
*At the [[Battle of Langside]] 1568, Clan MacKenzie fought on the side of Mary Queen of Scotts against the forces of her half brother [[James Stewart, Earl of Moray]] who subsequently won the battle.
*With the [[Clan Munro|Munro]] Clan the MacKenzies were often at feud, and Andrew Munro of Milntown defended, for three years, the Castle Canonry of Ross, which he had received from the Regent Moray who died in 1569, against the clan MacKenzie, at the expense of many lives on both sides. Mackenzie failed to take the castle by force. It was, however, afterwards delivered up to the Mackenzies peacefully under the act of pacification (a treaty of peace to cease hostilities).[http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/m/munro2.html][http://www.electricscotland.com/history/genhist/hist33.html]
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*The Battle of Mulroy 1668, [[Clan Cameron]] and [[Clan MacKintosh]] were at peace and Cameron Chief Sir Ewen was responsable for keeping the peace between his men and their former enemies. However when the Chief Sir Ewen Cameron was away in London a feud broker out between [[Clan MacDonald]] and their enemies Clan MacKintosh and Clan MacKenzie. As the Cameron Chief was away he was not able to hold back his clan and the combined forces of Cameron and MacDonald defeated the MacKintoshes and MacKenzies.
*The Clan MacKenzie led by their Chief Kenneth who for a time held the title Earl of Seaforth but later died in exile are believed to have supported King James at the siege of [[Londonderry]] and at the [[Battle of the Boyne]] in 1690.
==Jacobite Uprisings==
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