In courage my wild men are more than a match for the Lowlanders.
It is true that in the old days the clans could never carry their forays southward, for, unaccustomed to discipline and unprovided with horses or even with firearms, they fared but badly when opposed to steel-clad men and knights in armor.

But I trust it will be different this time.

I cannot hope to infuse any great discipline among them.

But they can at least be caught to charge in line, and their broad claymores may be trusted to hew a way for them through the lines of the Lowlanders.

I trust, above all things, that the king will not be persuaded to negotiate with the traitors who are opposed to him.