In the days before the Battle of Falkirk Muir on 17 January 1746, General Hawley's cavalry made aggressive reconnaissances toward the Jacobite positions at Falkirk. Jacobite outpost cavalry under Lord Elcho skirmished with government dragoons on the roads between Edinburgh and Falkirk. Hawley was contemptuous of the Jacobites — he had erected a gallows at Falkirk confident of victory — and his cavalry was equally overconfident, pressing close to the Jacobite lines without adequate caution. This overconfidence was punished at Falkirk Muir when the Jacobite charge routed Hawley's dragoons on the left flank before the government right could prevail.
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