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  • Charles Edward then marched his little army to Lochiel, which is about five miles from Glenfinnin, resting first at Fassefern, the seat of Lochiel's brother, and then proceeded to a village called Moidh, belonging to Lochiel.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

  • He answered that he agreed with every word Lochiel had spoken.

    Claverhouse Mowbray Morris 1879

  • "Lochiel," one of the most prominent Jacobite chieftains, was in fact Donald Cameron, of Lochiel, which distinguished him nicely from the hundreds of other Camerons named Donald.

    Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

  • [276] The beautiful poem of Campbell, entitled "Lochiel," is founded on this circumstance.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

  • Byron, who calls Campbell "a warm-hearted and honest man," thought that his "'Lochiel' and 'Mariners' are spirit-stirring productions; his 'Gertrude of Wyoming' is beautiful; and some of the episodes in his 'Pleasures of Hope' pleased me so much that I know them by heart".

    The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • "Lochiel," to use the words of Mr. Home, "still resisted, entreating

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

  • The Justice, as he's often called, reads almost every word; as a leading citizen in a town most of whose inhabitants are illiterate in English and Spanish, he considers it his duty to keep abreast of events in the world beyond Lochiel.

    Excerpt: Crossers by Philip Caputo 2009

  • This historian is of opinion that the Clan Quhele of Wyntoun were the Camerons, who appear to have about that period been often designated as Macewans, and to have gained much more recently the name of Cameron, i.e. Wrynose, from a blemish in the physiognomy of some heroic chief of the line of Lochiel.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • General Stewart of Garth, in his account of the battle of Killiecrankie, informs us that Lochiel was attended on the field by the son of his foster brother.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • The land is conquered; its lights are quenched — Glengarry, Lochiel, Perth, Lord Lewis, all the high chiefs are dead or in exile.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

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