Moy, Highland

Rout of Moy (such as " rout of Moy " ) is the name of an episode of the second Jacobite Rising, which took place on the night of February 16, 1746. It beat five Jacobites a 1500 -strong army of the government troops to flight.

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The Jacobite pretender Charles Edward Stuart ( better known as " Bonnie Prince Charlie" ) spent the night in the mansion Moy Hall, eight miles south of Inverness. When this had become the Lord Loudoun, commander of the loyalist troops in Inverness, known, he immediately ordered a night march and broke with around 1,500 men according to Moy on. According to legend, the plans Loudoun from a landlord's daughter should have been intercepted, overheard the officers Loudoun and immediately the lady MacKintosh informed about it.

Lady MacKintosh therefore sent to a fifteen- year-old Lachlan MacKintosh by Moy, to warn the prince before the advance of Loudoun. Secondly, they had stationed a guard on the road from Inverness to Moy, consisting of Donald Fraser ( the blacksmith of Moy ) and four other men. In advance of the troops Loudoun this fired five men, according to tradition wild with their few guns and raised a great shout, when they are in the dark each other shouting the names of the various Jacobite clans, so that the advancing troops were in the faith soon, a entire Jacobite army to face and plunges to Inverness withdrew.

The only casualty of the skirmish was the famous piper Donald MacCrimmon.