The Highlands were subjugated rapidly, completely, and for ever.

During a short time the English nation, still heated by the recent conflict, breathed nothing but vengeance.

The slaughter on the field of battle and on the scaffold was not sufficient to slake the public thirst for blood.

The sight of the tartan inflamed the populace of London with hatred, which showed itself by unmanly outrages to defenceless captives.

A political and social revolution took place through the whole Celtic region.