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LOCHIEL, having returned to Lochaber, found Macdonald of Glengarry and Keppoch willing to join him in the common. defence of their properties; and for this purpose they met at Glenturrit, when they agreed to raise their men and meet upon a moor above Aberchalder, a few miles from Fort-Augustus, whenever they heard of the enemy's advance. Lochiel, in the meantime, allowed most of his men to separate and go home, but hearing of the approach of the English sooner than he expected, he determined to march for the place of rendezvous with about four hundred of his followers whom he had still about him, thinking that, by the assistance of Glengarry and Keppoch, he might be able to engage the enemy successfully. On his arrival he was disappointed to find only Keppoch there in terms of the agreement previously come to, and that Glengarry was "walking and discoursing with the English Commander in the very centre of his troops," encamped on the plain below, and numbering 1500 men and several troops of horse. Lochiel became exasperated, and expressed his suspicions even of Keppoch's fidelity, with the result that the latter resented the charge by leaving the field and marching his men home. The English soon after raised their camp and marched for a wood at the end of the Pass of Clunes, where they halted, and their Commander, Colonel Brayn, sent a messenger to Lochiel requesting permission to walk peaceably through his country, assuring him that he had no design of injuring either himself or his people, if he was not provoked by their conduct to attack them. Lochiel was personally in favour of attacking the English in the Pass, where he would have great advantages over them and could keep them until more of his men should arrive from their homes. His leading men strongly advised him against this course, and they were supported in their views by General Drummond, who accompanied Lochiel, with the view, it is said, to command the confederated clans when they met, to prevent disputes among themselves; and Lochiel, unwillingly, gave way to the counsel of his friends. He, however, closely watched the movements of the enemy, who, after encamping for a night at Inverlochy, began a return march to Inverness, neither inflicting nor receiving any injury in the district of Lochaber during their long march there and back. In consequence of Glengarry's defection on this occasion, Lochiel and he were never afterwards completely reconciled. When the estates of Glengarry were subsequently forfeited, Argyll got a gift of it, and gave it afterwards to Lochiel, who, notwithstanding the old difference, granted it in turn entire to its original owner.* After this Lochiel joined Glencairn's army, and took part in several lively skirmishes between him and the English soldiery in which the young chief and his followers displayed their usual gallantry, but nothing specially remarkable is recorded of them at this period. In 1654 General Middleton arrived from Holland, and succeeded Glencairn in the command of the King's troops, whereupon he at once wrote to Lochiel as follows: : "HONOURED SIR,-The King is very sensible of your affection to him, and I am confident how soone he is in a capacity, will liberally reward your services. I doe * The author of Lochiel's Memoirs says, “Argyll's disposition of it to Lochiel is still extant, and is to be seen in the hands of M'Kenzie of Rose-End." |