Set out below is a short history of Clan Chattan / Mackintosh's role at Culloden. This is taken from my page, "The Unofficial Clan Chattan / Mackintosh Cyber-Sennachie" at <http://www.geocities.com/~brooms/sennachie>. CLAN CHATTAN AT CULLODEN: AN OVERVIEW Early in 1745, the chief of Mackintosh had raised and been appointed as captain to command one of the three new companies of the Black Watch -- a militia of highlanders whose purpose was to keep the peace in the highlands. Lachlan Mackintosh therefore found himself within government lines when Prince Charlie raised his standard at Glenfinnan in August of that year. His clan, however, was firmly Jacobite. The chief's wife, Lady Anne Mackintosh, therefore raised the clan for the Prince in her husband's absence, earning herself the honorary title of "Colonel Anne." Upon the return of the Jacobite army from England, Prince Charles found 800 Mackintoshes and other members of Clan Chattan waiting to enter his service under the leadership, in their chief's absence, of Alexander Macgillivray of Dunmaglass. At the battle of Falkirk, on 17 January 1746, the Mackintosh and Macpherson regiments fought side by side in the center of the front line. After Falkirk, a decision was reached for the Jacobite army to retreat to the north, and on the 16th of February, the prince arrived at Moy Hall where he was entertained by Lady Mackintosh. The army then occupied Inverness and engaged in some small forays with government troops. On one such foray, a number of prisoners were taken, including none other than the Mackintosh himself. He was turned over to his wife for safe-keeping. On being greeted by Anne with the words, "Your servant, Captain," he is said to have replied, "Your servant, Colonel." On April 15, 1746, the Jacobite army was encamped near Culloden Moor, and the Hanoverian/Government forces were encamped a few miles away near Nairn. In an effort to avoid a fight on the moorland, which was seen as distinctly disadvantageous to the Highlanders, the Jacobite leaders decided to attempt a night march and surprise attack on the Government army. Twenty to thirty men of Clan Chattan, being familiar with the area, acted as guides for the Jacobites. Tired and hungry as they were, however, huge gaps developed in their lines and a decision was ultimately reached to return to Culloden Moor. The following morning, the Government troops marched to the moor to face the now-exhausted, nearly famished Highlanders. Prince Charles ordered his men into battle formation. The Mackintosh and Clan Chattan men were in the center of the line. A British cannonade began, devastating the Jacobite lines. The Highlanders impatiently awaited the order to charge as more and more of their comrades fell. Finally, the Mackintoshes charged, hurling themselves at the hated enemy, the other clans following their lead. But they could not withstand the cold, withering fire of English musketry. Hundreds fell. Seven hundred of the Mackintosh regiment had taken their places in the ranks that morning; not more than 300 left the field; and of the 21 officers at the beginning of the battle, only three were alive at its close. Many were the stories of valiant bravery of the members of the Clan Chattan that day. Their major, John Mor Macgillivray, was seen, according to an eyewitness, "a gunshot past the enemies cannon, surrounded by the reinforcements sent against the Mackintoshes; he killed a dozen men with his broadsword, while some of the halberts were run through his body." Donald Dallas of Cantray was one of the three officers who survived, but he crawled off the field with the loss of an ear, a large slash on his forehead, and a piece of his elbow cut off. Alexander Macgillivray fell in the center of the English soldiers, shot through the heart. Another Macgillivray, Robert Mor from Dalziel of Petty, killed seven of the English with the tram of a peat cart before he himself was overpowered and killed. Gillies Macbean, a native of Strathnairn, was too badly wounded to join his comrades, so he propped himself against a turf wall and for some time held his own with claymore and target against a body of dragoons. Thirteen of his assailants had fallen before Macbean was finally overcome. The Clan Chattan also distinquished itself that fateful day because theirs was the only standard that did not fall into enemy hands and was not subsequently burned by the common hangman in Edinburgh. Donald Mackintosh of Flemington in the Parish of Croy tore the colours from their pole upon seeing the standard bearer shot, wrapped them around his middle and managed to get clean away from the battlefield. "The Battle of Culloden", wrote clan historian Margaret Mackintosh of Mackintosh, "marked the end of the clan system in Scotland as a military force. The Government abolished the hereditary jurisdiction of the chiefs, freed the tenants from giving service in exchange for their lands, forbade, under severe penalties, the carrying of arms and prohibited the wearing of Highland dress or tartan. The titles of the chiefs survived, and a strong feeling of loyalty in the individual clans still exists today, but the Jacobite rebellion expired in a wave of glory." "A wind that awoke on the moorland came sighing, Like the voice of the heroes who perished in vain; Not for Tearlach alone the red claymore was plying, But to win back the old world that comes not again."