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SIR EWEN CAMERON OF LOCHIEL (1629-1719)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 109 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR EWEN See also:CAMERON OF LOCHIEL (1629-1719)  , Scottish Highland chieftain, was the eldest son of See also:John See also:Cameron and the See also:grandson of Alan Cameron, the See also:head of the See also:clan Cameron . Having lost his See also:father in See also:infancy he passed See also:part of his youth with the See also:marquess of See also:Argyll at See also:Inveraray, leaving his See also:guardian about 1647 to take up his duties as See also:chief of the clan Cameron, a position in which he succeeded his grandfather . In 1653 Lochiel joined the See also:earl of See also:Glencairn in his rising on behalf of See also:Charles II., and after the defeat of this See also:attempt he served the Royalist cause by harassing See also:General See also:Monk . In 1681 he was knighted by Charles II., and in See also:July 1689 he was with See also:Viscount See also:Dundee at See also:Killiecrankie . He was too old to See also:share personally in the Jacobite rising of 1715, but his sympathies were with the Stuarts, and his son led the Camerons at See also:Sheriffmuir . Lochiel, who died in See also:February 1719, is called by See also:Macaulay the "Ulysses of the See also:Highlands." He was a See also:man of enormous strength and See also:size, and one who met him in 1716 says " he wrung some See also:blood from the point of my fingers with a grasp of his See also:hand." An incident showing his strength and ferocity in single combat is used by See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott in The See also:Lady of the See also:Lake (See also:canto v.) . Lochiel's son and successor, John, who was attainted for sharing in the See also:rebellion of 1715, died in See also:Flanders in 1748 . John's son Donald, sometimes called " See also:gentle Lochiel," joined Charles See also:Edward, the See also:Young Pretender, in 1745, was wounded at See also:Culloden, and escaped to See also:France, dying in the same See also:year as his father . The 79th See also:regiment, or Cameron Highlanders, was raised from among the members of the clan in 1793 by Sir Alan Cameron (1753–1828) . See See also:Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel (See also:Bannatyne See also:Club, 1842) .

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