On the retreat from Derby northward through Penrith in December 1745, government dragoons attempted to cut off and engage the Jacobite rearguard at Penrith. The Highland rearguard turned and drove them off. The town had been passed by the Jacobites on the way south and now again on the way north — twice in a month the army marched through. The skirmish at Penrith preceded the more decisive action at Clifton Moor. Throughout the retreat, Lord George Murray demonstrated that the Highlanders could fight defensively as well as in their characteristic offensive charge.
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