After Culloden, government columns penetrated the remote upper Deeside and Donside valleys — the Braemar and Corgarff areas that had been strongly Jacobite throughout the rising. Farquharson estates were confiscated. Corgarff Castle, occupied by Jacobites during the rising, was taken over by government forces and converted into a military barracks specifically to police the area — the building we see today is largely this post-Culloden conversion. The sweeping of Braemar and Corgarff ended the northeast Jacobite network that had sustained Lord Lewis Gordon's operations. Gordon of Glenbuchat escaped to France.
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