A French ship carrying 13,000 gold louis d'or — desperately needed Jacobite funds — was intercepted off Tongue in Sutherland by a government sloop. The gold was landed but the escort bringing it south to join the Jacobite army was intercepted and destroyed by MacKay of Bighouse and his men. The loss of this gold crippled Jacobite finances in the final weeks before Culloden.
Jacobite escort destroyed; gold captured
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