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Angus R. McDonald
Captain Angus R. McDonald (1832 Eigg, Small Isles, Lochaber, Kingdom of Scotland, United Kingdom – 14 April 1879, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States) was a Scottish American, Scottish immigrant to the United States who served as a commissioned officer in the Union Army, and became one of Wisconsin's greatest battlefield heroes of the American Civil War. Early life Angus McDonald was born on the Isle of Eigg, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, into the minor Noblesse, nobility ( gd, Flaith, flath) and into a family descended from Somerled, King Robert the Bruce, and the Scottish clan chief, Chiefs of Clan MacDonald of Clanranald. Angus McDonald's great-grandfather was the most important figure in the history of Scottish Gaelic literature; the war poet and national poet Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, alias "The Clanranald Bard", who famously served as Scottish Gaelic language, Gaelic tutor to Prince Charles Edward Stuart during the Jacobite rising of 1745, which, according to l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eigg
Eigg (; gd, Eige; sco, Eigg) is one of the Small Isles in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It lies to the south of the Isle of Skye and to the north of the Ardnamurchan peninsula. Eigg is long from north to south, and east to west. With an area of , it is the second-largest of the Small Isles after Rùm. Eigg generates virtually all of its electricity using renewable energy. Eigg has been owned by the Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust since 1997, as a community ownership; another stakeholder, the Scottish Wildlife Trust, manages the island as a nature reserve. In April 2019, National Geographic discussed the island in an online article, estimating the population at 107 and the average number of annual visitors at 10,000. Geology The larger part of the island is formed from olivine-phyric basalt flows erupted during the Palaeocene epoch. Together with flows of hawaiite and mugearite, these form the Eigg Lava Formation. The Sgùrr is formed from porphyritic rhyolitic pitchstone e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
