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Title: The "Red and white" book of Menzies...
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Menzies, David Prentice, 1851-
Subjects: Menzies clan
Publisher: Plean, Stirlingshire : Menzies
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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; the rest instantly wheeled and galloped down the hill, followed by
the Highlanders, who, claymore in hand, rushed after them, cutting them down.
The horse, in galloping down the hill, carried with them the infantry. Cobham's
dragoons, however, charged among the MacPhersons, who, on receiving the shock
of these veteran horse, reeled back, and the left of the right wing would have
become a total rout had not Chieftain Colonel Ian Menzies of Shian, observing the
surprise and dogged retreat of the MacPhersons, came to their rescue. He
instantly ordered his regiment of Menzies to charge the dragoons; this Template:Clan Menzies executed with such promptitude and rapidity that they drove the dragoons
in confusion off the field. Considerable confusion and hand-to-hand fight
ingensued at this point of the battle. The MacDonalds and Menzies, in supporting
the MacPhersons, fought furiously, using their dirks in close combat with the
dragoons, some, seizing the riders by their clothes, dragged them from their horses
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PRINCE CHARLIE'S BEDROOM AT CASTLE MENZIES.
Showing the Old Tapestry which was there in the time.

A.D. 1746.] THE THIRD BARONET OF CLAN MENZIES. 389
and stabbed them with their dirks. Lord George was unable to restrain the
Highlanders on the flight of Cobham's dragoons after receiving the charge of Clan
Menzies, which turned the tide of battle, and the Highlanders then darted forward,
claymore in hand, upon the enemy, who, unable to resist the impetuosity of their
attack, the whole of the royal army gave way, with the exception of about two
regiments. General Hawley himself was huddled off the field among a confused
mass of horse and foot. The Highlanders who pursued them, when they got to
the bottom of the hill, received the fire of the regiments who had not been engaged,
and were obliged to retire.
Meanwhile, Lord George Murray, observing the confusion of Hawley's army
moved down the hill with the Athole Brigade and the Clan Menzies regiment,
commanded by Chieftain Menzies of Shian, who had at once re-formed after forcing
the dragoons to flee. The Menzies and other Athole men descended in good

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