Lochaber — the Cameron country around the head of Loch Linnhe and the Great Glen — suffered the most intense post-Culloden reprisal in proportion to its population. Cameron of Lochiel had been the single most important clan chief to join the rising. He was wounded at Culloden and escaped eventually to France. His estates were forfeited. Government columns under Captain Caroline Frederick Scott (who had defended Fort William) swept through Lochaber with particular thoroughness, burning townships and seizing cattle. The destruction of Lochaber was so complete that the population was driven to near-starvation.
Multiple civilian deaths; hundreds of houses burned; thousands of cattle seized
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