Battle of Inverurie (1745)
| Battle of Inverurie | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Jacobite Rising of 1745 | |||||||||
 Inverurie |
|||||||||
|
|||||||||
| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Hanoverians
|
 Jacobite Forces
|
||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
|
MacLeod of MacLeod
|
Lord Lewis Gordon
|
||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 500 men of MacLeod's Independent Highland Companies Numerically inferior to Jacobie force |
900 men | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Many killed About 50 taken prisoner |
60 killed 20 wounded |
||||||||
Coordinates: 57°16′55″N 2°22′41″W / 57.282°N 2.378°W
For the battle of the same name during the Wars of Scottish Independence see: Battle of Inverurie (1308).
The second Battle of Inverurie took place on 23 December 1745 and was part of the second major Jacobite rising in Scotland.
Lord Lewis Gordon had been raising Jacobite forces and had managed to create two battalions. James Moir of Stoneywood commanded one battalion and Gordon of Abbachy commanded the other. Lord Lewis Gordon had also raised a considerable sum of money, but he was thwarted by his brother; Cosmo George Gordon, 3rd Duke of Gordon, who supported the British Government.
To put an end to Lord Lewis Gordon's Jacobite recruitment, John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun who was the King's commander in chief in the North, despatched the Laird MacLeod of MacLeod from Inverness with 500 men. MacLeod gained support from George Munro of Culcairn with 200 men and the Laird of Grant with 500 men.
Lord Lewis Gordon ordered his men to fall back to Aberdeen where he was joined by a number of men from Forfarshire and Kincardineshire. He was also joined by Lord Drummon's French troops who had just landed in Montrose. Later he was also joined by 300 men of the Clan Farquharson as well as his own two battalions under James Moir of Stoneywood.
...
Wikipedia