As the Jacobite army marched south through Cheshire in November 1745, Lord George Murray sent a strong cavalry detachment toward Macclesfield as a feint to confuse government forces about the true line of march. Cumberland, who was attempting to intercept the Jacobite advance, was deceived into thinking the main army was marching via Macclesfield while the bulk of the Highland force took a different route. The Macclesfield cavalry detachment skirmished with government militia scouts before withdrawing to rejoin the main army. Murray's use of diversionary cavalry operations was one of the more sophisticated elements of the Jacobite march south.
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