Clandara
“They roared and rumbled and belched out their volleys of heavy balls which crashed into the massed ranks of the Highland army, killing and maiming men four deep. Clan Chattan and the Camerons of Lochiel were scythed down by the continuous fire; the music of the pipes cried on through the appalling noise, and the shouts of the Highland officers “Close up! Close Up!” told how the cannon were thinning their ranks.
Fire swept the Appin Stewarts and the Athollmen and bowled down the lines of Frasers...; still the time passed and the men of the Prince’s army stood their ground, falling and dying even as they begged for the command to charge their enemy and escape the murderous bombardment. For fully fifteen minutes the clans waited, until at last Lochiel himself, who had been standing at the head of his men with the cannon-balls roaring past him and the screams of his wounded drowning the rant of his piper, sent a message to the commander of the right flank, Lord George Murray. Unless he was given leave to charge he could not, and would not, hold his men.MoreLess
Fire swept the Appin Stewarts and the Athollmen and bowled down the lines of Frasers...; still the time passed and the men of the Prince’s army stood their ground, falling and dying even as they begged for the command to charge their enemy and escape the murderous bombardment. For fully fifteen minutes the clans waited, until at last Lochiel himself, who had been standing at the head of his men with the cannon-balls roaring past him and the screams of his wounded drowning the rant of his piper, sent a message to the commander of the right flank, Lord George Murray. Unless he was given leave to charge he could not, and would not, hold his men.MoreLess
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