Strathspey — the great valley of the upper Spey — was swept by government columns after Culloden. Even though the Grant clan chief had supported the government, individual Grant tenants had joined the Jacobite army. Government soldiers made little distinction, burning indiscriminately through the valley. The Grant castle at Castle Grant and the cluster of villages along the Spey suffered. The pacification of Strathspey was part of the systematic destruction of the Highland economy that Cumberland's army conducted through May and June 1746.
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