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- Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe was mortally wounded at the Battle of Ticonderoga in North America on July 7-8, 1762; He died July 17th at King's Hospital in Fort Edward, NY. He is the hero of a famous West Highland Ghost story. (This story and his wife and history or profiled in the Spring 2012 issue (vol.39 #2) of the Journal of the Clan Campbell Society of North America.
He was alone at Inverawe, so the tale goes, when a frantic man burst in and rushed up to touch the hearth, claiming sanctuary and explaining that he had killed a man. Inverawe hid him in the upper part of the house, in a room which is there to this day; when the posse arrived, he was dismayed to find that the murder victim was his own foster-brother. The laws of Highland Hospitality, however; held him firm and he did not give up his unwelcome guest. He did however transfer him to a cave on Cruachan. That night the ghost of the murdered foster-brother appeared to Inverawe, telling him to give up the killer. This he refused to do. The same thing happened on the second night and on the third, the ghostly apparition bade him farewell saying
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1702 - 1758 (56 years)
