Coats of arms of the chief of Clan Johnstone (left) and chief of Clan Maxwell (right)[6][7]
Date
6 December 1593[8]
Location
Annandale, Scotland
Result
Johnstone victory
Belligerents
Clan Johnstone[1] Clan Scott[2] Clan Graham[2]
Clan Maxwell[3] Clan Grierson[4] Clan Pollock[5]
Commanders and leaders
Sir James Johnstone
Lord John Maxwell †
Strength
600-800
2,000
Casualties and losses
"heavy" (only 160 survivors)
700 killed
The Battle of Dryfe Sands was a Scottish clan battle that took place on 6 December 1593, near Lockerbie, Scotland. It was fought between the Clan Maxwell and Clan Johnstone after a hundred years of feuding between them. The Johnstones won a decisive victory over the Maxwells.
^Way, George of Plean; Squire, Romilly of Rubislaw (1994). Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia. Glasgow: HarperCollins (for the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs). pp. 178–179. ISBN 0-00-470547-5.
^ abCite error: The named reference Marchbank was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Way, George of Plean; Squire, Romily of Rubislaw (1994). pp. 429 - 430.
^Way, George of Plean; Squire, Romily of Rubislaw. (1994). pp. 152 - 153.
^Way, George of Plean; Squire, Romily of Rubislaw (1994). pp. 446 - 447.
^Crichton-Stuart, Marquess of Bute, John Patrick; Stevenson, John Horne; Lonsdale, H. W. (1903). The Arms of the Baronial and Police Burghs of Scotland. Edinburgh: Blackwood. p. 418. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
^Nicolas, Nicholas Harris (1828). The Siege of Carlaverock ... with the Arms of the Earls, Barons, and Knights, who Were Present on the Occasion. Nichols. p. 25. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
^Hewinson, James King (1912). Dumfriesshire. Cambridge University Press. p. 93.
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