Government columns under Captain Caroline Scott and other officers penetrated Glen Affric from Fort Augustus in the weeks after Culloden. Glen Affric was (and remains) some of the most remote country in Scotland — a long narrow glen running west from Strathglass into Kintail. Jacobite survivors and fugitives had retreated into this wilderness. Government soldiers burned every settlement they found. Armed Jacobite survivors ambushed a government patrol in the narrow glen, killing two soldiers before retreating into the upper glen where pursuit was impossible. The remote country made Glen Affric one of the last areas pacified.
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