One of the most celebrated small actions of the '45. Prince Charles was resting at Moy Hall, home of Lady Anne Mackintosh, when word reached her that Loudon was marching 1,500 men to capture the Prince. A blacksmith named Donald Fraser positioned himself and four other men in the darkness along the approach road. They fired shots and shouted the gathering cries of several clans, creating the impression of an army. Loudon's 1,500-man column panicked and fled back to Inverness in disorder. One government soldier was killed: the MacCrimmon piper, greatest of his dynasty, who had composed a lament predicting his own death at the outset of the campaign — 'Cha till mi tuille' (I shall return no more).
MacCrimmon piper killed; Loudon force fled in disorder
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