In the weeks before the Battle of Cromdale, Major-General Thomas Buchan — who had taken command of the Jacobite forces after Dundee's death — attempted to maintain a viable Highland army in the field. Government dragoons under Livingstone probed the Strathdearn country south of Inverness, seeking to locate and engage Buchan before he could concentrate his forces. Minor skirmishing occurred as Jacobite outposts screened Buchan's position. Livingstone's dawn surprise attack at Cromdale ended these evasions when he caught Buchan unprepared in his camp on the banks of the Spey.
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