Lieutenant Hector Munro, 8th laird of Novar who was a commissioned officer in the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot led the raid to capture the Jacobite rebel John Dubh Cameron who was later executed.

[2] John Dubh Cameron having no fixed abode and facing the consequences of having served in the French army and also of having supported the Jacobite rising, formed a party of freebooters, and took up his residence in the mountains between the counties of Perth, Inverness and Argyll.

[3] In the aftermath of the Jacobite rising the district of Rannoch was described as being in a sad state with people starving and with the returning warriors having no option but to resort to thieving.

[4] Lieutenant Hector Munro of Novar received special instructions to apprehend the rebel John Dubh Cameron who was better known as Sergeant Mor.

[5] However, in 1755, after nine years of playing hide and seek in the mountains of Badenoch, MacPherson managed to elude Munro's grasp and escaped to France.