After Killiecrankie and Dunkeld, the Jacobite cause in Scotland was sustained by General Buchan in the northeast. At Cromdale, government cavalry surprised the Jacobite camp at dawn and routed them before they could form. Many fled into the Cromdale hills in their nightclothes. The defeat ended the 1689 Jacobite rising as an organized military force in Scotland, though guerrilla resistance continued.
c.400 Jacobites killed; remainder fled
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