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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1901 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / Canadian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V ON DRUMMOSSIE MUIB Meanwhile, " Retreat " seemed still to be the watchword of the Prince's army. Since the first fatal. backward step at Derby, it knew not where to stop. No advantage was gained by the victory at Falkirk, much time was wasted in the digging of silly trenches before Stirling Castle, and at last, driven fairly into a corner, the doomed army allowed the Duke of Cumberland to cross the Spey without opposition, and in bitterness of heart heard his band strike up, ironically, into the tune, " Will you play me fair play, Bonnie laddie, Highland laddie ? " Cumberland was convinced that Prince Charlie and his men would never dare face him in battle, that he had but to chase them from Inverness into their native mountains and keep up the sport of hunting them in detachments throughout the summer ; but meet him they did on the moor of Drum- mossie, in front of Culloden House. My grandfather, as I have said, was never in Scotland, and yet the tears would run down his old cheeks when he told us of that fatal fight, even though all he knew of it he had heard fromhis great-uncle who was then upon the English side, though not as a combatant. Koderick swore solemnly that he never lifted a weapon against his old comrades in arms. It was merely his passion for seeing all that was going on which took him into the thick of the battle where he watched the worn-out, half-starved Highlandmen throw themselves desperately against the triple wall of steel ...