MacGregor was brave and intrepid, but at the same time, somewhat whimsical and singular.

When advancing to the charge with his company, he received five wounds, two of them from balls that pierced his body through and through.

Stretched on the ground, with his head resting on his hand, he called out loudly to the Highlanders of his company, "My lads, I am not dead.

By G--, I shall see if any of you does not do his duty." The victory, as is well known, was instantly obtained.
In some curious letters of James Roy,* it appears that his thigh-bone was broken on this occasion, and that he, nevertheless, rejoined the army with six companies, and was present at the battle of Culloden.
* Published in Blackwood's Magazine, vol.ii.p.

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After that defeat, the clan MacGregor kept together in a body, and did not disperse till they had returned into their own country.