After Culloden, government forces swept through northeast Scotland — Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Moray — methodically destroying the Jacobite infrastructure that had sustained Lord Lewis Gordon's operations. Episcopal clergy were targeted, weapons seized, and hundreds of suspects arrested. The Gordon estates were investigated for forfeiture. Aberdeen's Jacobite networks were dismantled. Gordon of Glenbuchat and other Jacobite leaders escaped to France. The northeast, which had been the strongest Jacobite territory in Scotland, was effectively pacified by the summer of 1746.
Government columns; northeast Scotland Jacobite civilian population
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