General Wade, the elderly field marshal who had built the military roads through the Highlands, commanded the government's northern army in 1745. He marched and counter-marched but was consistently outmanoeuvred by the faster-moving Jacobite army. Wade had 6,000 troops but poor intelligence and a dispiriting inability to catch the Jacobites. His army shadowed and missed as Charles marched south, crossed the Forth at the Fords of Frew, and took Edinburgh. Wade's failure to block the Jacobite advance was one of the government's most significant early failures of the '45.
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