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Scotland,"* who raised a few men, he failed to find open 

 sympathisers among the Mackenzies. He was not more 

 successful with the Macleods of Assynt and Loch Broom. 

 He may have thought that his title, as signifying his 

 descent from the Macleods of Lewis, their common 

 ancestors, would have had some weight with them, but he 

 did not succeed in raising a single man. The Earl of 

 Cromartie, his father, had a narrow escape from the block 

 after Culloden, being saved from execution only by the 

 devotion of his wife. Lord Macleod had a distinguished 

 career after the '45. He entered the Swedish service, 

 rising to the rank of Major, and he subsequently served as 

 a volunteer in the Prussian army. He was a protege of 

 Field-Marshal Keith, and acted as his aide-de-camp at the 

 battle of Prague, and at all the operations in Bohemia 

 during the campaign of 1759. When he returned to 

 England, he requested permission to enrol a corps of 200 

 or 300 Highlanders to serve in Germany. He was destined 

 to perform a more important service: for he raised that 

 fine regiment, originally named Macleod's Highlanders, 

 and numbered the 73rd, and now known as the 7ist 

 Highlanders. In acknowledgment of his usefulness, the 

 Government restored to him his father's forfeited estate, on 

 payment of 19,000, to relieve the property from existing 

 burdens. 



While President Forbes was quietly and successfully 

 working in the North for the Government, Charles Edward 

 was making a triumphant progress in the South. The 

 total rout of Sir John Cope the " Johnny Cope " of 

 satirical Jacobite ballads at Preston ; the junketings at 

 Edinburgh; the march into England ; the capture of Carlisle ; 

 the submission of the North-West of England; and, finally, 

 the unopposed occupation of Derby ; these were the main 

 incidents which marked the flowing tide of success. The 

 tide turned at Derby, and the ebb set in when the retreat to 

 Scotland commenced. The successful skirmish at Clifton ; 



* He led the few Mackenzies who fought at Culloden, and was afterwards 

 saved by Sir Alexander Macdonald from the vengeance of the Government. 



