John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee — Bonnie Dundee — led the first Jacobite rising in support of the exiled James VII. At Killiecrankie, his Highland force charged downhill at General Mackay's government troops in the pass. The charge broke the government army completely — soldiers fled into the Garry and drowned. But Dundee himself was killed in the moment of victory. Without his leadership the rising collapsed at Dunkeld a month later. Killiecrankie was the last time the pure Highland charge succeeded against formed infantry.
Dundee killed; c.2,000 government troops killed or drowned
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