hiel himself."[285] Lochiel
accompanied the Prince in his disastrous expedition to Derby.

At the end of February 1746, he was sent with General Stapleton to
besiege Fort William. He left that enterprise when summoned by Charles
Edward to assemble around his standard on the field of Culloden. On the
eventful fourteenth of April, the day before the battle, Lochiel joined
the Prince's army: that night, the Highlanders, who never pitched a
tent, lay among the furze and trees of Culloden Wood, whilst their young
leader slept beneath the roof of Culloden House.

The following extract from the Duke of Cumberland's orderly-book shows
how closely that able general and detestable individual had studied the
habits of those whom it was his lot to conquer; and mark also his
contempt for the "Lowlanders and arrant scum" who sometimes made up the
lines behind the Highlanders.[286]

"Edinburgh, 12 Jan. 1745-6. Sunday Parole, Derby.

"Field-officer for the day: to-morrow Major Willson. The manner of
the Highlander's way of fighting, which there is nothing so easy to
resist, if officers and men are not prepossessed with the lyes and
accounts which are told of them. They commonly form their front rank
of what they call their best men, or true Highlanders, the number of
which being allways but few, when they form in battallions they
commonly form four deep, and these Highlanders form the front of the
four, the rest being Lowlanders and arrant scum; when these
battallions come within a large musket-shott, or three-score yards,
this front rank gives their fire and immediately throw down their
firelocks and come down in a cluster with their swords and targets,
making a noise and endeavouring to pearce the body, or battallions
before them. Becoming twelve or fourteen deep by the time they come
up to the people, they attack. The sure way to demolish them is at
three deep to fire by ranks diagonally to the centre where they
come, the rear rank first, and even that rank not to fire till they
are within ten or twelve paces; but if the fire is given at a
distance you probably will be broke, for you never get time to load
a second cartridge; and if you give way, you may give your foot for
dead, for they being without a firelock, or any load, no man with
his arms, accoutrements, &c. can escape them, and they give no
quarters; but if you wi