22 February 1746: 130 soldiers from FritzJames’s Regiment of Horse were landed at Aberdeen by a French ship. The men who were mainly Irish and English were “clothed in red turned up with blue.” They brought saddles, horse furniture, cavalry arms, breastplates and ten cart-loads of baggage ashore.
22 February 1746: Four companies of the Argyllshire Militia marched from Dumbarton to Inveraray to defend the town and to confront any Jacobite advance into Argyllshire. The following day Major-General John Campbell of Mamore with another 4 companies would set out from Dumbarton.