Cannon and his Irishmen retired to the Isle of Mull.

The Lowlanders who had followed Dundee to the mountains shifted for themselves as they best could.

On the twenty-fourth of August, exactly four weeks after the Gaelic army had won the battle of Killiecrankie, that army ceased to exist.

It ceased to exist, as the army of Montrose had, more than forty years earlier, ceased to exist, not in consequence of any great blow from without, but by a natural dissolution, the effect of internal malformation.

All the fruits of victory were gathered by the vanquished.