After retreating from Stirling, the Jacobite army marched north to Inverness. Lord Loudon, commanding the government forces in Inverness with some 2,000 men, abandoned the city rather than be besieged. He retreated across the Beauly Firth into the Black Isle. The Jacobites occupied Inverness — the 'capital of the Highlands' — in February 1746 and used it as the base for the final campaign. From Inverness, the Jacobites conducted the siege of Fort George, captured Fort Augustus, and organised the various northern operations that continued until Culloden.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near Inverness-shire