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Skirmish of Alness
The Skirmish of Alness was a conflict that took place in October 1715 in Alness, in the county of Ross in the Scottish Highlands. It was part of the Jacobite rising of 1715 and pitted Highlanders loyal to the British-Hanoverian government of George I of Great Britain against Highlanders loyal to the Jacobite House of Stuart.〔Rose, D.M. (1897). ''Historical notes; or Essays on the '15 and '45''. Published by Edinburgh, W Brown. Chapter 6. pp. 38 to 52.〕〔Sage, Rev. Donald, A.M. (1789 - 1869). Minister of Resolis. Edited by his son. ''Memorabilia Domestica or Parish Life in the North of Scotland''. Chapter 1. pp. 4 to 5.〕
==Background==
William Mackenzie, 5th Earl of Seaforth, chief of Clan Mackenzie allied himself with John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar who was the leader of the rebel Jacobite army.〔 Mackenzie of Seaforth proceeded to Inverness and took over the town.〔 Meanwhile Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet, chief of the rival Clan Munro, who supported the British government was secretly assembling his clansmen with the intention of taking Inverness.〔 Mackenzie of Seaforth on hearing of this sent out messengers, one of whom met Munro on his march towards Dingwall. He gave Munro the message that “he should return home peacefully unless his intention was to throw his lot in with the Jacobites”〔 Munro obliged and returned to his seat at Foulis Castle.〔 The next day Mackenzie of Seaforth set off from Inverness with a large force, leaving his relative John Mackenzie of Coul in control of Inverness.〔
Great expectations were placed on John Gordon, 16th Earl of Sutherland, chief of Clan Sutherland, who like the Munros supported the government.〔 Munro of Foulis had applied to both the Earl of Sutherland and Lord Reay for their support.〔 The Earl of Sutherland gathered his forces and was joined by George Mackay, 3rd Lord Reay, chief of the Clan Mackay and a force from the Clan Ross who also supported the government. They arrived at Alness on the 5th of October and the Earl reviewed his forces and counted a force of 1800 men.〔 They formed up in order of battle with the Mackays and the Rosses on the right, the Sutherlanders in the centre with the Munros on the left.〔 It is said that the Rosses were only armed with sharpened wooden poles as they had previously agreed to give up their weapons to the government.〔〔 The Munros by contrast had six pieces of cannon, which according to Mackenzie of Seaforth, they had "boasted" that they would use to batter down his home at Brahan Castle.〔
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