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their Country country accordingly.
Accordingly, Keppoch (with about 40 men) intecepted intercepted
them at the High bridge and obliged them to retreat back through Latterfinlay;
but Keppoch, knowing their Superiority superiority
in Numbers numbers,
and waiting for the advantage of the ground, did not attack them
closely clossly till they entered enterd
a thick wood at the head of Loch-lochy Lochlochy
called Laganachdrom Longanachdrom, where they
attacked & and surrounded them, some of the Glengarie
Glengaries people, also from the village of
Laganachdrom Longanachdrom also comming
comeing in to support Keppoch Keppoch’s and
a few. A few soldiers being were
wounded, & 5 or 6 five or six killed,
with the loss of 2 men of the highlanders Highlanders;
the 4 Companys and these four companys were
all taken prisoners and sent to his His R. H. at Glenfinin
in Moydart.
(Para break in Lockhart)
As the Pr P. was setting out for
Glenfinin to meet his friends according to appointment, I
was dispatch’d detached to Ardnamurchan to recruit,
and soon returned with 50 cliver fellows who pleasing
pleased the Pr P.,and upon review, his
Highness His H. was pleased to honour me with the Command
command of them, and told me Iwas I
was the first officer he had made in Scotland-; which Complement compliment
encouraged my Vanity vanity not alittle
a little, and with our friends vowed to the Almighty we would
live & and
die with our noble Prince, P. though all Brittain Britain should forsake
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The dash deleted after 'Scotland' was merely filling to the
end of a line.
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