23 March

23 March 1746: Lieutenant-Colonel Haudring with an advance party of British dragoons and Hessian hussars clashed with Jacobite forces under Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Mercer at Inver, south of Dunkeld. The dragoons and Hessians were moving to relieve the besieged garrison of Blair Castle.¹

23 March 1746: Patrick McGlashan, the innkeeper at Blair, wrote to Captain Colin Campbell of Glenure to inform him that the Argyllshire men taken prisoner by the Jacobites during the Atholl Raid on 16-17 March were being well looked after. Glenure was absent at the time of the attack on his outpost.²

Notes:

1. The History of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746, Extracted from the Scots Magazine, p 169. ↩︎
2. RA CP/MAIN/12 f.424. ↩︎