Massacre of Glencoe Massacre of Glencoe The Massacre of Glencoe () took place in Glen Coe in the Highlands of Scotland on 13 February 1692, following the Jacobite uprising of 1689-92. An estimated thirty-eight members and associates of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed by government forces billeted with them, with others later alleged to have died of exposure, on the grounds they had not been prompt in pledging allegiance to the new monarchs, William III of England and II of Scotland and Mary II. In March 1689, James II of England and VII of Scotland landed in Ireland in an attempt to
William Robertson Coe March 15, 1955, he was buried at Locust Valley on Long Island. Two years after his death, in 1957, the Virginian Railway named its new tugboat "W. R. Coe" in his memory. After the VGN merger with the Norfolk and Western in 1959, it was renamed "R.B. Claytor" (for the N&W leader, Robert B. Claytor). As of 2003, the tugboat was serving the harbor of Boston as the "Karen B. Tibbetts". William Robertson Coe William Robertson Coe (June 8, 1869 – March 15, 1955) was an insurance, railroad and business executive, a major owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses, as