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but of this affair Ld G. M. Lord George Murray Col.Colonel
Ker & and O’neal O’Neil have given
their diffirent
different Accounts accounts as
they have also done of the nixts next day’s
days battle of Collodden Culloden, to which
the Reader reader is referr’d referred ]B.
To proceed with our Author
Upon our return to the Muir muir of Colloden
Culoden, tho the P. had given orders for bringing meat &
and drink for us to, the field
wch which our men not expecting, through ?
their great want of sleep meat & and drink
many slipt off to take some refreshment in Inverness, Colloden
Culoden & and the neighbourhood nighbourhood;,
and others to 3 three or 4 four miles
distant distance where they had friends freinds
& and acquaintances; and the said refreshments
refreshment so
lidled lulled them asleep yt that designing
only to take an ane hours sleep rest
or two they were
afterwards surprised and killed in their beds. By this means we
wanted in the Action action at least one third of
our best men, and of these
those who
did engage, many of them had hurried back fm
from Inverness &c upon the allarm alarm of
the Enemys enemys approach, both Gentlemen
gentlemen & and others, as I did my self myself,
having only taken one drink of ale to supply all my need; .
Besides this deficiency difficiency in
our several severall Regiments regiments,
which ammounted amounted to above a third (as
I said), we likewise wanted Clunie’s Clunies
brave clann of Mcphersons McPharsons, also Cromertys
Cromartys, wch which was Surprised surprized
in Sutherland, Barrisdals Barisdales Mcdonalds
McDonalds, & and Glengyle with his Mcgregors
McGregors &c out upon Command command in
the shire of Ross. All these unhappy Circumstances circumstances
for
us for us considered,
it is no wonder the event of this
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Comments
There appears to be a slightly different hand within the Journal
which inserts the comment, "B. To proceed with our Author"
.Lockhart ignores this entirely.
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