Lord Ogilvy raised the Angus Jacobites — tenants of the Airlie estate and surrounding Episcopal Angus gentry — for Prince Charles in 1745. The Ogilvy family were committed Jacobites across generations. The Angus regiment they raised formed one of the Jacobite army's more disciplined and well-officered units. Recruiting operations through Angus involved confrontations with Whig and Presbyterian communities in the coastal towns. Lord Ogilvy was captured after Culloden but escaped from Edinburgh Castle; his father, the Earl of Airlie, had his estates forfeited.
Lord Ogilvy: c.600 Angus Jacobite volunteers
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