Strathglass — the beautiful valley of the Glass river running southwest from Beauly — was Fraser clan country and had provided many men for the Jacobite army under Lord Lovat. After Culloden, government columns swept through the valley destroying townships and seizing cattle. Lord Lovat himself was hunted through the hills and eventually captured hiding on an island in Loch Morar. He was brought to London and executed in April 1747. The Beauly area also suffered: the Fraser estates were forfeited and the clan structure disrupted. The pacification of Strathglass was thorough and destructive.
Multiple civilian deaths; Fraser clan townships burned
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