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See also: John
See also: Cameron and the See also: grandson of Alan Cameron, the See also: head of the clan Cameron
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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 chief of the clan Cameron, a position in which he succeeded his grandfather
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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 attempt he served the Royalist cause by harassing General
See also: Monk
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In 1681 he was knighted by Charles II., and in
See also: July 1689 he was with Viscount Dundee at See also: Killiecrankie
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He was too old to 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
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Lochiel, who died in See also: February 1719, is called by 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 Walter See also: Scott in The Lady of the Lake (See also: canto v.)
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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
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John's son Donald, sometimes called " 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
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The 79th regiment, or Cameron Highlanders, was raised from among the members of the clan in 1793 by Sir Alan Cameron (1753–1828)
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See See also: Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel (See also: Bannatyne See also: Club, 1842)
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