Glen Urquhart, running southwest from Loch Ness near Drumnadrochit, was Jacobite-sympathising territory in the country of the MacDonells of Glengarry and the Grants of Glen Moriston. Government columns from Fort Augustus and Inverness entered Glen Urquhart in the weeks after Culloden as part of the systematic pacification of the glens feeding into the Great Glen. Armed Jacobite survivors resisted the burning parties from the hillsides above the glen. Urquhart Castle — the great medieval ruin on the shore of Loch Ness — was a landmark overlooking this contested territory. Government soldiers operating in the glen were fired on from the steep hillsides.
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