Battle of Cromdale

Battle of Cromdale
Part of the Jacobite rising of 1689
The Piper's Stone, a boulder upon which a mortally wounded Jacobite piper played music to encourage his comrades
Date 30 April – 1 May 1690 Location Cromdale, Moray, Scotland 57°19′54″N 3°29′21″W / 57.33167°N 3.48917°W / 57.33167; -3.48917[1] Result Government victory
Belligerents
Scottish Government	Jacobites
Commanders and leaders
Thomas Livingstone Ludovick Grant	Thomas Buchan John Cameron
Strength
2,000	800
Casualties and losses
~100 killed	400 killed
Registered battlefield
Designated	30 November 2011
Reference no.	BTL20
class=notpageimage| Location within Scotland

The Battle of Cromdale took place at the Haughs of Cromdale on 30 April and 1 May 1690. The site is on a hillside near the village of Cromdale, Strathspey, historically within the county of Inverness-shire. The battlefield has been included in the Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland and protected by Historic Scotland under the Scottish Historical Environment Policy of 2009.^[2]