Next to them were Cannon and his Irish foot.

Then came the Macdonalds of Clanronald, commanded by the guardian of their young prince.

On the left were other bands of Macdonalds.

At the head of one large battalion towered the stately form of Glengarry, who bore in his hand the royal standard of King James the Seventh, [364] Still further to the left were the cavalry, a small squadron consisting of some Jacobite gentlemen who had fled from the Lowlands to the mountains and of about forty of Dundee's old troopers.

The horses had been ill fed and ill tended among the Grampians, and looked miserably lean and feeble.