3 April

3 April 1725: In the House of Commons, Major-General George Wade, Member of Parliament for Bath, presented a Bill “for more effectual Disarming the Highlands of Scotland.” Wade would be appointed Commander-in-Chief in Scotland on 24 April, and the Bill would become an Act of Parliament on 31 May.¹

3 April 1746: The Jacobites lifted the siege of Fort William and headed back towards Inverness. The garrison observed bodies of men travelling by the tops of the hills towards Fort Augustus and sallied out with 500 men to seize the cannon and mortars left abandoned in the siege works.²

Notes:

1. The Historical Register, Volume 10, 1725, p 135. ↩︎
2. The History of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746, Extracted from the Scots Magazine, p 164. ↩︎