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immediately formed his troops, who were most numerous, into three lines, disposed in excellent order; and about one o'clock in the afternoon the cannonading began. The artillery of the re- bels was ill served, and did very little execution but that of the King's army made prodigion slaughter among the enemy. Being severel galled by this fire, about 5 hundred of the clans charged the Duke's left wing with their usual impetuosity and courage. One regiment was disordered by the weight of this column, but two battalions advaneing from the second line sus- tained the first, and soon put a stop to their ca- reer by a severe fire, which killed a great num- ber of them. At the same time, the dragoons under Hawley, with the Argyleshire militia, pul- led down a park wall that covered their right flank, and the cavalry falling in among the re- bels, sword in hand, completed their confusion. The French piquets on their left covered the re- treat of the Highlanders by a regular and well directed fire, and then retired to Inverness, where they surrendered themselves prisoners of war: An entire body of the rebels marched off the field in great regularity with their bagpipes play- ing before them, and Charles' standard display- ed; the rest were routed with great slaughter, and their chief was with great difficulty prevailed on