Moy Hall

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Moy Hall near Inverness, Scotland has been the home of the Clan MacKintosh chiefs since the 14th century.

Jacobite supporter Lady Anne Farquharson-MacKintosh entertained Charles Edward Stuart here in 1746. Lady MacKintosh learned that government forces were advancing to capture Stuart and she arranged for four of her men to hide by the roadside when the government troops approached.

Setting off their pistols to fire one at a time, they shouted for Clan MacDonald and Clan Cameron to advance, thus tricking the government forces into thinking they had stumbled into the whole of Jacobite Army. Government forces sppedily retreated and the event is remembered as "The Rout of Moy".

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• [1] Colonel Anne Mackintosh, Scotland's Beautiful Rebel by Jean Mackintosh Goldstrom