Captain Caroline Scott extended his pacification operations into Sunart — the peninsula between the Sound of Mull and Loch Sunart. MacLean clan adherents and Jacobite survivors had taken refuge here. Scott's company landed from boats and swept through the peninsula. Armed MacLean clansmen resisted the burning parties and a skirmish occurred near Salen. Government soldiers were killed and wounded. Scott's methods became increasingly brutal as resistance continued. The sweeps through Sunart were part of a coordinated western seaboard operation combining naval transport with land-based burning parties. The atrocities committed during these sweeps were later cited in pamphlets attacking Cumberland's methods.
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