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Introduction
Briefing
The year is 1745. In the Highlands south of the Great Glen rumours swirl that James III and VIII the Stuart Pretender to the thrones of England and Scotland is about to land with a French army to overthrow the Hanoverian George II.
Fergus MacIvor is cousin of the chief of clan MacIvor holding the lands around his house of Innishewan in his own right with a tightly knit ‘tail’ of well armed highland warriors. Alastair, the chief, has taken up a commission with the British army and left to join his regiment with General Cope at Stirling leaving Fergus to splutter into his claret about loyalty to the true royal house of Scotland.
Donald Campbell knows which side he’ll be on should the Stuarts return. Holding Finlarig Castle for the Earl of Breadalbane with a group of Argyll militia crammed into the gloomy tower house he is determined to uphold the Protestant succession and the rights of his Whig lord.
Captain Shorthouse has just arrived to take over command at the barracks of Inversnaid as commander of a detachment of Guise’s regiment. Damn but the Highlands are cold, dark, damp, and uncivilized. He detests everything about it, and the Scots most of all. But he’ll keep sending out the patrols to keep an eye on things.
And then at the beginning of August the news arrives at Innishewan. The young chevalier has landed on the west coast of Scotland and is calling the loyal clans to overthrow the Hanoverian tyranny. Fergus sets off to make his pledge to the young prince…
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