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The British Army had sent reinforcements to Fort William on August 16.
Charles, hearing of this, had informed his supporters, and Captain John Sweetenham's sixty soldiers were captured by the MacDonnells of Keppoch.
The first engagement between Jacobite and British Army forces takes place at Highbridge on August 16.
Captain John Scott is marching his 1st Foot to Fort Augustus when he hears the sound of a bagpipe at Highbridge.
A servant and sergeant sent to investigate are quickly captured by the Jacobite forces of Donald MacDonnell of Tirnadris, comprising eleven men and a bagpiper.
Scott decides to retreat to Fort Augustus, eighteen miles (twenty-nine kilometer) away.
The Keppochs arrive, bringing the Jacobite forces to approximately fifty, and pursue Scott's force and surrounded it at Laggan.
In the ensuing skirmish Scott loses six men before surrendering to Keppoch.
Charles, hearing of this, had informed his supporters, and Captain John Sweetenham's sixty soldiers were captured by the MacDonnells of Keppoch.
The first engagement between Jacobite and British Army forces takes place at Highbridge on August 16.
Captain John Scott is marching his 1st Foot to Fort Augustus when he hears the sound of a bagpipe at Highbridge.
A servant and sergeant sent to investigate are quickly captured by the Jacobite forces of Donald MacDonnell of Tirnadris, comprising eleven men and a bagpiper.
Scott decides to retreat to Fort Augustus, eighteen miles (twenty-nine kilometer) away.
The Keppochs arrive, bringing the Jacobite forces to approximately fifty, and pursue Scott's force and surrounded it at Laggan.
In the ensuing skirmish Scott loses six men before surrendering to Keppoch.