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{{Infobox Military Conflict
|conflict=Battle of Philiphaugh
|image=[[File:The Covenanters Monument at Philiphaugh - geograph.org.uk - 1396174.jpg|250px]]
|caption=Memorial to the Battle of Philipaugh
|partof=[[Wars of the Three Kingdoms]]
|date=13 September 1645
|place=Philiphaugh, 2 miles from [[Selkirk, Scottish Borders|Selkirk]], [[Scotland]]
|result=Decisive [[Covenanter]] Victory
(contracted; show full)'s]] Lieutenant General in Scotland. He was able to raise an army consisting of regiments of Irish soldiers sent to Scotland by the [[Confederate Ireland|Irish Confederates]] and shifting numbers of Highland clansmen. With these troops, Montrose had won a remarkable series of victories in the year preceding the Battle of Philiphaugh. The last of these was at [[Battle of Kilsyth|Kilsyth]], which destroyed the last Covenanter army in Scotland and put the lowland towns at his mercy.

Montrose refused to 
hi allow his army to loot [[Glasgow]], instead accepting a sum of £500 from the Town Council as pay for his soldiers. He then summoned a Parliament to be held in Glasgow. The Council complained at the cost which would be involved and asked to be excused the levy of £500. Montrose agreed, leaving his army without pay.<ref>Rogers, pp.260-261</ref> Although Montrose intended to strike into England to aid the King's cause there, the Highlanders under [[Alasdair MacColla]] who made up most of Montr(contracted; show full)
[[Category:1645 in Scotland]]
[[Category:Battles of the Scottish Civil War|Philiphaugh 1645]]
[[Category:Scottish Borders history]]
[[Category:Conflicts in 1645]]
[[Category:Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland|Philiphaugh]]

[[ru:Битва при Филипхоу]]