[153] The Farquharsons formed part of the unfortunate right wing in the battle, and suffered severely.
[154] The Mackintoshes, whose impetuosity hurried the right wing into action before the order to engage had been transmitted over the lines. They were of course the principal sufferers.
[155] An allusion to the provocation given to the Macdonalds of Clanranald, Glengarry, and Keppoch, by being deprived of their usual position—the right wing. Their motions are supposed to have been tardy in consequence. The poet was himself in the right wing.
[156] The unfortunate night-march of the Highlanders is described with historic truth and great poetic effect.
[157] Roy Stuart lived and died in the belief (most unfounded, it seems), that Lord George Murray was bribed and his army betrayed.
[158] Military orders received from the Court of St Germains.
[159] The Duke of Cumberland.
[160] Evidently a Valentine morning surprise.