[3] He was also joined by a small detachment of Franco-Irish and Scottish regulars sent by Lord John Drummond, Who had landed at Montrose a few weeks previously.

[3] He nominally led one column of Jacobite troops and Avochie another, but in reality, it appears that active command was delegated to Major Lancelot Cuthbert, brother of the laird of Castlehill and a regular in the French Royal-Ecossais, who "did all the business".

[3] The 20th-century historian Ruairidh MacLeod gave an account of the Battle of Inverurie in volume LIII of the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, quoting from contemporary documents.

[2] An account of MacLeod's actions are given in the contemporary Culloden Papers:[1] McKlaudes Resolute Behavior in running to the Enemy with so few of his men about him and the stand they made with not one half of their little army against 900 till they were overpowered by numbers is much to his honour.

[3] Also taken prisoner were John Chalmers, formerly Principal and Professor of King's College, Aberdeen, and Donald Ban MacCrimmon, a member of the distinguished family of pipers.