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his career in the reign of Queen Anne by being one of 

 the chief promoters of the Union. But his old colleague, 

 Dundee, remained faithful to King James, and ended his 

 career at Killiecrankie. This, then, was the man who was 

 the Jacobite mainstay in Scotland, at the time his Royal 

 master was fighting for his crown in Ireland. 



Opposed to Dundee was General Hugh Mackay of 

 Scourie, an ex-soldier of fortune, like Graham himself, 

 both being men who had made their military reputation in 

 the Dutch wars. Dundee depended entirely on the High- 

 land clans for the success of his insurrection. Viscount 

 Tarbat, who, a Highlander himself, understood his fellow- 

 Highlanders better even than Dundee, endeavoured to 

 checkmate the latter by detaching the Highland chiefs 

 from the cause of James. There seems good ground for 

 believing, that if the negotiations had been left in his hands, 

 the movement would have been stopped at the outset, and 

 much useless bloodshed and misery averted. But the 

 business was bungled, and the differences between the 

 Jacobites and the Williamites were referred to the arbitra- 

 tion of the sword. The events of Dundee's campaign are 

 well known to every student of Highland history ; from the 

 first hide-and-seek campaign of Mackay, down to the final 

 encounter at Killiecrankie, on 2/th July, 1689 J when one of 

 the most complete victories ever gained by an army of 

 Highlanders was practically nullified by the death of their 

 leader. When Dundee was in Lochaber, a month before 

 the battle, he wrote a letter to John Macleod of Harris 

 (whose harper, by the way, was the famous " Clarsair Dall," 

 Roderick Morison, a native of Lewis) reviewing the situa- 

 tion generally. From that letter, it would appear that 

 among the chiefs who had mustered their men in obedience 

 to the summons of the General, were Allan Macdonald, the 

 youthful Captain of Clan Ranald, attended by his tutor, 

 Ranald Macdonald of Benbecula, Sir Donald Macdonald 

 of Sleat and North Uist, and Macneill of Barra ; the whole 

 of the heritors of the Outer Hebrides being thus engaged 

 in the Jacobite cause. Macleod, however, for some reason, 



