Anne Mackintosh

[2] Early in 1744, Angus Mackintosh was offered one of three new Independent Companies being raised by John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun to support the British-Hanoverian Government.

'Colonel' Anne's regiment joined the Prince's army at Bannockburn, near Stirling Castle, in January 1746, twelve days before the Battle of Falkirk Muir.

She received a message from her mother-in-law that 1,500 of Loudon's Highlanders, including her husband's company stationed 8–12 miles away at Inverness, were planning a night raid on Moy Hall to snatch the Prince (and claim the £30,000 bounty).

Mackintosh sent five of her staff out with guns to crash about and shout clan battle cries to trick the Government forces into thinking they were about to face the entire Jacobite army.

[2][4] The next month Mackintosh's husband and 300 of Loudon's men were captured north of Inverness by the Jacobite army.

The Prince paroled Captain Mackintosh into the custody of his wife, commenting "he could not be in better security, or more honourably treated".