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 to check the pursuit; he dispatched Roy Stuart forward to Penrith, requesting that a thousand men might be sent to him from the main body there stationed. With this force he intended to have gained the flank of the Duke's army, now approaching obliquely from the left, and to have attacked them under favour of the approaching night. But Charles returned Stuart with an order, requiring him to march with all speed forward to Penrith, without taking any offensive measures against the Duke. Lord George desired the messenger not to mention this order to any other person; and, resolving to engage the enemy with such force as he had, drew up his troops upon a moor to the right of the road. Just as the sun was setting, the whole body of the Duke's army up and formed within the opposite enclosures; when there was only the road with its two hedges intervening between the two armies.

Before ordering the attack, Lord George went backwards and forwards along the ranks speaking to every individual officer and endeavouring to animate his little band. He then placed himself at the head of the Macpherson regiment (which was on the left of the line), with Cluny by his side. Daylight was gone, and the moon only now and then broke out from the dark clouds. By this light Lord George saw a body of men—dismounted dragoons, or infantry who had resumed their proper mode of warfare—coming forward upon the enclosures beyond the road. He ordered the two regiments near him to advance; in doing which, they recieved a fire from the enemy. At the Lord George exclaimed "Claymore!" an ordinary war-cry among the Highlanders, and rushed on sword in hand. The whole left wing then making direct and spirited attack, forced