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Historical person
c. 1708–1752
Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure was a Crown factor on forfeited Highland estates who was shot and killed near Ballachulish on 14 May 1752. His assassination became known as the Appin Murder and led to the prosecution and execution of James Stewart of the Glen.
Kidnapped makes the murder of the Red Fox the decisive historical event that places David Balfour and Allan Breck Stewart in danger. Campbell’s office, planned evictions and murder are historical. Stevenson’s fictional David Balfour witnesses the shooting.
Series
The David Balfour novels follow a young Lowland Scot from dispossession and abduction into the unsettled political world left by the 1745 Jacobite rising. Kidnapped pairs David with the historical fugitive Allan Breck Stewart and makes the Appin Murder the climax of a journey through the Highlands. Catriona…
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