The first siege of Fort Augustus took place in December 1745 at the south-western end of Loch Ness, Scotland, as part of the Jacobite rising of 1745. A force of 600 men drawn from the recently formed Independent Highland Companies, raised to support the British-Hanoverian government, retook the fort from Clan Fraser of Lovat following a small skirmish. Beyond that brief skirmish there was no significant fighting and no casualties were recorded on either side.
In the aftermath of the siege, Lord Loudoun led the same 600 men of the Independent Companies of Sutherland, Mackay, Grant and Munro in search of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, chief of Clan Fraser. Lord Lovat had permitted his son to depart with a band of Frasers to join the Jacobite leader Prince Charles, while himself nominally remaining loyal, the intention being that he would be held as a hostage for the peaceable behaviour of his clan. However, Lord Lovat escaped from his home at Castle Downie and evaded capture, excusing himself on the grounds that he could not govern his son and some of the young men of his name. The Clan Fraser had originally supported the British government during the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 to 1716, but during the 1745 to 1746 rising a large number of them, including some 300 men, had defected to the Jacobite cause under the Master of Lovat.
A government force of 600 men from the newly raised Independent Highland Companies descended on Fort Augustus in December 1745 and dislodged Clan Fraser of Lovat after no more than a slight skirmish, retaking the fort without a single casualty on either side, a swift and almost bloodless reassertion of Hanoverian authority at a key strategic point on the south-western shore of Loch Ness.
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