Colonel Gordon of Cluny will expel most…
1838 CE
Colonel Gordon of Cluny will expel most of the inhabitants of the Isle of Barra to the United States of America in order to make way for sheep.
Alexander, Lord of the Isles, had granted to the MacNeill clan in 1427.
The clan had holds the island until 1838, when Roderick MacNeil, the fortieth Chief of the Clan, sells the island to Gordon.