Seven Men of Moidart

He spent the following years in exile in France, suffering from poor health and relative poverty, despite secret financial support from his family in Scotland.

[2] During the 1745 rising, as the senior representative of the house of Atholl, he was chosen to unfurl Charles's standard at Glenfinnan on 16 August though his military activity was limited by gout.

He was captured following the defeat at Culloden and imprisoned in the Tower of London: in very poor health at the time of his arrival, he died shortly afterwards.

After the rebellion's failure, Scottish Jacobites were quick to blame O'Sullivan for "tactical ineptitude",[3] a view repeated by 19th century historians and into modern times.

[6] Following the Jacobite defeat at Culloden in April 1746, Sheridan escaped Scotland on the French privateer Mars: he had been in poor health for some time and died later that year at Rome.

MacDonald clashed on several occasions with Lord George Murray, whose memoir depicted him as "old and [...] much subject to his bottle",[7] and which claimed that Keppoch described him as "drunk or mad, if not both".

As with O'Sullivan, Murray's depiction was a strong influence on 19th century accounts, which presented Charles's Irish-born advisors in a negative light.

Strickland was taken ill on the march through Scotland and was left at Carlisle: following its retaking by the government he appears to have claimed to be a French subject,[10] but died there on 1 January 1746.

[16] MacDonald was responsible for arranging much of Charles's initial funding, though later presented himself as a reluctant participant in the expedition who only accompanied them in order to exert influence on his brother.

MacDonald returned to France; a commonly cited, though erroneous, tradition states that he was killed during the French Revolution, though he in fact died in 1770.

Some accounts cite the presence of Duncan Buchanan, a clerk for Aeneas MacDonald who acted as a Jacobite agent and messenger, instead of O'Sullivan.