All the pieces were in place now to enable the town to flourish, and Inverness quickly consolidated its position as the pre-eminent Highland cultural and trading centre, its harbour bustling with shipbuilding, fishing and exports of fish and cattle, hides and furs, wool and cloth, leaving the port on fast cogs for markets to the south and across the North Sea to Scandinavia or Flanders and the wider Continent.
Mary, Queen of Scots laid siege to Inverness for three days before it capitulated in The garrison fort was reinforced once more in , but was captured by Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobite army in March , and then blown up by government forces after the Jacobites were crushed at Culloden just a month later.
With the clans subdued, and London law enforced across the Highlands, relative, long-term stability came to the Inverness for the first time. A court house and prison were built in and respectively, and Inverness Academy was established in The structure we see on Castle Hill today dates from the s.
In Robert Bruce recaptured the castle and had it destroyed to prevent it from being used by the English. In Donald, Lord of the Isles attacked Inverness. This prompted the Earl of Mar to rebuild the earlier castle two years later. After spending some time in prison Alexander was released, but he almost instantly launched a fresh revolt and led a large force of soldiers on Inverness in MacDonald sacked Inverness but was eventually forced to submit to the king.
That did not stop his successor, John MacDonald of Islay, from attacking Inverness Castle on three separate occasions. After each attack, the castle defences were strengthened. In the Earl of Huntly was appointed hereditary keeper of Inverness Castle.
In the 4th Earl rebuilt the castle in stone. In the Earl refused to allow Mary, Queen of Scots to enter the castle. His defiance prompted an immediate attack by loyal soldiers drawn from the Fraser and Munro clans. Mary's forces captured the castle, but oddly, the Gordons of Huntly were allowed to continue as keepers. They transformed the castle into a comfortable residence with opulent staterooms. In the castle was occupied by Covenanter troops who repulsed a siege by the Royalist leader General James Graham, Marquis of Montrose.
Royalist soldiers supporting Charles II eventually captured the castle in but surrendered it to a Covenanter army under General Leslie. In Oliver Cromwell began building a new fortress at Inverness, closer to the mouth of the River Ness, using stone taken from churches in the region. The new fortification was known at the time as 'The Sconce' but is now known simply as Cromwell's Fort, or Citadel.
The only part of Cromwell's fort to survive is the clock tower and a section of ramparts. Inverness Castle was captured by Bonnie Prince Charlie in , but after the Jacobites were defeated at the Battle of Culloden government forces destroyed the castle.
In another castle with tower was completed by George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly. In when the second major Jacobite Uprisings began Inverness Castle was defended against the Jacobites by the Clan Ross who supported the British government.
Inverness Castle fell soon after to the Jacobite troops under Bonnie Prince Charlie, who destroyed it with explosives. Inverness Castle Photograph by Stuart Cankett. The north tower of the castle, a former jail, provides a spectacular view point which was opened in and from here you will have panoramic views of the whole of Inverness and the surrounding countryside. Apps created by Deuxality. About Highland AR.
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