Ruthven Barracks near Kingussie in Badenoch was built after the 1715 rising to overawe the Highlanders. In February 1746, a Jacobite force demanded its surrender. Sergeant Terence Molloy held out with a tiny garrison of 12 men, famously replying to the surrender demand: "I am too old a soldier to give up a garrison of such strength without bloody noses." The barracks eventually fell. It was to Ruthven that the shattered survivors of Culloden rallied in April 1746, hoping for further orders — instead they received Charles's heartless message to "seek their own safety."
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