In both battles the panic of the regular troops, in spite of the conspicuous example of courage set by their generals, was singularly disgraceful.

It ought also to be noted that, of these extraordinary victories, one was gained by Celts over Saxons, and the other by Saxons over Celts.

The victory of Killiecrankie indeed, though neither more splendid nor more important than the victory of Newton Butler, is far more widely renowned; and the reason is evident.
The Anglosaxon and the Celt have been reconciled in Scotland, and have never been reconciled in Ireland.

In Scotland all the great actions of both races are thrown into a common stock, and are considered as making up the glory which belongs to the whole country.

So completely has the old antipathy been extinguished that nothing is more usual than to hear a Lowlander talk with complacency and even with pride of the most humiliating defeat that his ancestors ever underwent.