A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans : with an extensive selection from the hitherto inedited Stuart Papers . BATTLE OF AI7LDEARV. 381 Other Highlanders who had obtained, or rather taken, leave of ab^^oneoafter the battle of Inverlocliy, and also by Macdonald and his arriving in the neighbourhood of Aucliindoun, he was met by LordGordon at the head of a tliousand foot and two hundred horse. Hecrossed the Dee on the first of iSIay at the mill of Cruthie, and sentLord Aboyne, the same day, down Dee-side with eighty horse to Aber-deen in quest of powder, of which his army
A history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans : with an extensive selection from the hitherto inedited Stuart Papers . BATTLE OF AI7LDEARV. 381 Other Highlanders who had obtained, or rather taken, leave of ab^^oneoafter the battle of Inverlocliy, and also by Macdonald and his arriving in the neighbourhood of Aucliindoun, he was met by LordGordon at the head of a tliousand foot and two hundred horse. Hecrossed the Dee on the first of iSIay at the mill of Cruthie, and sentLord Aboyne, the same day, down Dee-side with eighty horse to Aber-deen in quest of powder, of which his army stood in great want. Hislordship had the good fortune to find no less than twenty barrels ofpowder in the ships which lay in the harbour, which he immediatelycarried off with him to the army, which he joined the same night atSkene, where Montrose had pitched his camp. * Thus reinforced and well provided with ammunition, Montrose con-tinued his march towards the Spey, and before Hurry was even awarethat he had crossed tlie Grampians, he found Montrose within six milesof his camp. The sudden appearance of Montrose with s
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