On this day: First shots of the Jacobite Rising of 1745 were fired

On 16 August 1745, two companies from the 2nd Battalion of Lieutenant-General James Sinclair’s 1st Regiment of Foot (Royal Scots), marching to reinforce the garrison of Fort William, were attacked by a party of Macdonalds at Highbridge in the first military engagement of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Read more about the engagement at Highbridge […]