After abandoning Inverness, Lord Loudon's government force of some 2,000 men retreated through the Black Isle and Easter Ross, pursued by a Jacobite force. Loudon used the Beauly Firth as a barrier and skirmished with Jacobite forces along the Ross-shire coast. He eventually retreated all the way to Sutherland, where he joined with pro-government Sutherland and MacKay clansmen. His operations in the north consumed Jacobite attention and forces but could not affect the main campaign further south. The Rout of Moy — in which five men sent Loudon's 1,500 running — occurred during this period.
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