Corgarff Castle in Strathdon — a tall sixteenth-century tower in the heart of the Grampians — was garrisoned by Jacobite forces during the '45. It commanded the Lecht Pass, one of the higher routes connecting Donside with Speyside. The castle had a long history of clan conflict and government-Jacobite contestation — after Culloden it was converted into a government barracks specifically to police the Jacobite northeast. Its occupation by the Jacobites in 1745-46 was part of the broader pattern of Gordon-country Jacobite control that Lord Lewis Gordon and Gordon of Glenbuchat maintained.
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