Fòram na Gàidhlig

Stuart Reid has an very good series of paperback handbooks about military structure, tactics, uniforms and weapons in this period. I've got his "Highland Clansman, 1689-1746" (with Angus McBride), which takes a distinctly unromanticised view, and there's a companion volume called "Cum...

Yes, very interested indeed. For years I have being trying to research, in my spare time (i.e. not very often!), the fate of MacKinnon's Regiment from the Isle of Skye (the part of Skye where I now live). The only Skye clan to rise in rebellion, they marched south just too late to fight at Prestonpa...

There are lots of primary or near-primary sources, if you care to dig deep (I don’t even know which country you’re in!). There is a history text in Gaelic about the ’45 - "Eachdraidh a' Phrionnsa, no Bliadhna Thearlaich", written in 1843 by John MacKenzie from Gairloch, Wester Ross (who al...