CJ Linton.
In the late morning of the 16th April 1746 a Jacobite Army commanded by General George Murray fighting for Prince Charles Edward Louis John Severino Mario Stuart stood ready to charge into the teeth of its enemies guns. Fathers stood with sons and some even with their grandsons. Not all the men present were there out of nationalist fervor however, as the reverend James Robertson of Ross-shire wrote “I saw boys dragged from their plows, one young man tried to make a run for it but was overtaken by speed of foot, once informed he had just joined the Jacobite cause he stated he would rather die than join the rebellion….
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