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He passed by Killiecrankie and Blair Athol to Perth; Cluny came in, with the Duke of Perth, and Lord George Murray, Charles's most skilled general, who had been out at Glensheil, in 1719, and had learned the lesson of war in the Sardinian army. His clemency was conspicuous; he wrote to James that he would give up Holyrood to the wounded, rather than see them homeless.
Over a little smoke the aged grandsire spreads his pale hands; and the empty hearth is as desolate as his heart. Translator. The reports made to parliament rival the novelist and the poet: The inhabitants of Glensheil, in the neighborhood of the valley of Dundee, were formerly distinguished from all their neighbors by the superiority of their physical qualities.
He fought at Shirramuir , and he with his brother, later Marshal Keith, was in the unlucky Glensheil expedition from Spain . That endeavour failed, leaving hardly a trace, save the ghost of a foreign colonel which haunts the roadside of Glensheil. From that date the Earl was a cheery, contented, philosophic exile, with no high opinion of kings.
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