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young prince. On the left were other bands of Macdonalds.At the head of one large battalion towered the stately form ofGlengarry, who bore in his hand the royal standard of KingJames the Seventh.* Still further to the left were the cavalry,a small squadron consisting of some Jacobite gentlemen whohad fled from the Lowlands to the mountains and of about fortyof Dundee’s old troopers. The horses had been ill fed and illtended among the Grampians, and looked miserably lean andfeeble. Beyond them was Lochiel with his Camerons. On theextreme left, the men of Sky were marshalled by Macdonald ofSleat.**

In the Highlands, as in all countries where war has not be-come a science, men thought it the most important duty of acommander to set an example of personal courage and of bodilyexertion. Lochiel was especially renowned for his physicalprowess. His clansmen looked big with pride when they re-lated how he had himself broken hostile ranks and hewn downtall warriors. He probably owed quite as much of his influenceto these achievements as to the high qualities ■which, if fortunehad placed him in the English Parliament or at the Frenchcourt, would have made him one of the foremost men of his age.He had the sense however to perceive how erroneous was thenotion which his countrymen had formed. He knew that to giveand to take blow's was not the business of a general. He knewwith how much difficulty Dundee had been able to keep to-gether, during a few days, an army composed of several clans;and he knew that what Dundee had effected with difficultyCannon would not be able to effect at all. The life on which somuch depended must notbesacrificedto a barbarous prejudice.Lochiel therefore adjured Dundee not to run into any unneces-sary danger. “Your Lordship’s business,” he said, “is to over-

* Douglas’s Baronage of Scotland.

** Memoirs of Sir Ewan Cameron.

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