The Last Highlander: Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent

EIGHT: Planning an invasion, 1702–04

NINE: ‘A disposition in Scotland to take up arms’, 1703

TEN: The ‘political sensation’, autumn 1703

ELEVEN: The ‘Scotch plot’ exposed, winter 1703–04

TWELVE: ‘You walk upon glass’, 1704–14

THIRTEEN: The end of exile, 1714

FOURTEEN: A necessary change, 1714–15

FIFTEEN: Return to Scotland, 1715

SIXTEEN: Fighting for the prize, 1715

PART THREE: THE RETURN OF THE CHIEF, 1715–45

SEVENTEEN: Home, 1715–16

EIGHTEEN: The legal battles begin, 1716

NINETEEN: Living like a fox, 1716

TWENTY: ‘What a lion cannot manage, the fox can’, 1717–18

TWENTY-ONE: Matters of life and death, 1718–21

TWENTY-TWO: Networking from Inverness, 1722–24

TWENTY-THREE: Lovat under Wade’s eye, 1725–27

TWENTY-FOUR: Tragedy, 1727–31

TWENTY-FIVE: Kidnapping and election-rigging, 1731–34

TWENTY-SIX: A pyrrhic victory, 1734–39

PART FOUR: LORD LOVAT’S LAMENT, 1739–47

TWENTY-SEVEN: Floating between interests, 1738–43

TWENTY-EIGHT: ‘A foolish and rash undertaking’, 1743–45

TWENTY-NINE: Rebellion, July–December 1745

THIRTY: A quick victory, and long march to defeat, December 1745–June 1746

THIRTY-ONE: The beginning of the end, 1746–47

THIRTY-TWO: Dying like a lion

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ILLUSTRATIONS (#u6af4f6a3-feff-551f-b6ae-ed8f155b28de)

Etching of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat after William Hogarth. (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)

James II and family, 1694, by Pierre Mignard. (The Royal Collection © 2011 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II/The Bridgeman Art Library)

Queen Mary II, c. 1685, studio of Willem Wissing. (Kenwood House, London © English Heritage Photo Library/The Bridgeman Art Library)

King William III by Godfried Schalcken. (© The Crown Estate/The Bridgeman Art Library)

Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, 18th century English School. (© Scottish National Portrait Gallery/The Bridgeman Art Library)

Louis XIV in Royal Costume, 1701, by Hyacinthe Rigaud. (© Louvre, Paris/Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library)

View of Edinburgh by J Slezer (engraved copper plate) produced for D. Browne, London, 1718. (© The British Library Board)

Major James Fraser of Castle Leathers, c. 1720, attributed to John Vanderbank. (Private Collection)

John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll and Greenwich, William Aikman. (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)

Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, attributed to Allan Ramsay. (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)

Sir James Grant. Etching by John Kay, 1798. (© The Mary Evans Picture Library)

The death of Colonel Gardiner on the field of Prestonpans. Sir William Allan lithograph by E. Walker. (© The Mary Evans Picture Library)

George II at the Battle of Dettingen by David Morier. (© Private Collection/Arthur Ackerman Ltd/The Bridgeman Art Library)

Field-Marshal George Wade, attributed to Johan van Diest. (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)

Prince Charles Edward Stuart, by William Mosman. (Scottish National Portrait Gallery)

The Battle of Culloden, 1746. Coloured engraving published by R. Sayer and J. Bennett, London c. 1780. (© The National Army Museum, London)