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The Appin Murder (Scottish Gaelic: Murt na h-Apainn[1]) was the assassination by a concealed marksman of Colin Roy Campbell, the Clan Campbell tacksman of Glenure and factor for the Forfeited Estates Commission, on 14 May 1752. The murder, which took place on the confiscated estate of Clan Stewart of Appin in Lochaber in the west of Scotland, was an act of violent resistance against the large scale clearances taking place on the estate during the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. The assassination led to the trial and execution of James Stewart of the Glens, often characterized as a notorious miscarriage of justice.[2] The murder also inspired events in Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novel Kidnapped and its sequel Catriona.[2]
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