CLOSE CALL
Taking a Government cavalry officer’s horse as a spoil of war turned out badly for a Jacobite called Macdonald in 1745. The Highlander pulled the officer from his charger and jumped onto it himself. But as a troop of Government cavalry fled the fighting, the Macdonald’s new mount bolted after them. The Jacobite was unable to turn the horse around or jump from it. The horse was soon in its usual spot at the head of a Government cavalry troop and when it stopped, so did the cavalrymen. The Macdonald was taken prisoner and hanged.
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