Captain Caroline Scott, one of the most notorious of Cumberland's pacification officers, led his company through Moidart — the remote peninsula on the west coast where Prince Charles had first landed and where the Seven Men of Moidart had gathered for his landing. Scott's reputation for ruthlessness made him feared throughout the western Highlands. His sweep through Moidart burned townships, killed suspected Jacobites and drove off livestock. Clansmen who resisted were shot. Moidart was Cameron and MacDonald country — deeply Jacobite — and Scott's men encountered sporadic resistance throughout the peninsula. Scott became one of the most hated symbols of Cumberland's pacification.
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