The Moray towns of Elgin and Forres — prosperous market towns on the coastal plain — were controlled by Jacobite forces through the winter of 1745-46 as part of the broader Jacobite occupation of northern Scotland. These towns served as billeting and supply centres for the Jacobite army based at Inverness. Pro-government townspeople and Presbyterians in the area were suppressed or kept quiet. The area's Episcopal tradition made it comparatively sympathetic to the Jacobite cause. Government forces retook the Moray towns as Cumberland advanced north in April 1746.
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