General Henry Hawley marched from Edinburgh with a relief army to relieve the Jacobite siege of Stirling Castle in January 1746. Intercepted by the Jacobite army under Lord George Murray on the moor of Falkirk, Hawley's army was routed — the last Jacobite major victory. The skirmishing around Stirling in the days before Falkirk Muir included actions by government cavalry patrols and Jacobite outpost guards as both sides manoeuvred for the decisive battle.
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