Invergarry Castle on Loch Oich — the seat of MacDonell of Glengarry — was one of the last Jacobite strongholds in the Great Glen to be taken. Prince Charles had stayed here on his way to Glenfinnan in 1745 and again on his flight after Culloden. Government forces approaching Invergarry in the spring of 1746 encountered resistance from MacDonell clansmen defending their chief's castle. The castle was taken, stripped of anything useful, and left in ruins. Cumberland visited the castle personally during his Great Glen operations. Its destruction symbolised the government's determination to eliminate every physical basis of Jacobite power in the Highlands.
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