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The Battle of Lockeel
Lockeel arrived with two battalions whye wite the highlands still an area in which private military companies cod be maintained deep into the eighteenth century. The duke of athel had a fighting tail, a total military force probably between three and four thousand men - that was the largest they got. And there were plenty of other scottish noblemen, for example, lord lewis gordon who brought people out on this kind of hold over, light feudal hold over them. They also raised significant numbers of volunteers in the fishing ports and east coast borrers. So the total number of men who at one point or another, fought for the jacobites is
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