In March 1746, a Jacobite force surprised a detachment of government troops — including some of the Hessian mercenaries sent by King George's brother-in-law the Landgrave of Hesse to assist in suppressing the rising — at Keith in Banffshire. The action demonstrated that the Jacobites could still mount offensive operations even as the main government army under Cumberland advanced northward. Keith sits on the River Isla in Banffshire, on the edge of the Gordon country, and the skirmish showed the Jacobites' determination to contest the northeast.
Jacobite detachment; government Hessian advance troops
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