On 3 May 1746 — three weeks after Culloden — two French frigates, Mars and Bellone, arrived at Loch nan Uamh on the west coast, the very inlet where Charles had landed the previous year. They brought 40,000 louis d'or in gold, arms and supplies for the Jacobite cause — arriving far too late. Three Royal Navy sloops (HMS Greyhound, Baltimore and Terror) engaged the French frigates in a fierce three-hour action. The French ships, heavier gunned, fought the sloops off and eventually escaped with the Jacobite gold they had landed. The gold was hidden in caves near Loch Arkaig. This engagement was the final military action of the 1745 rising.
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