An historical novel as gripping as Scott's Ivanhoe. It is a tale of adventure in the 18th century, set in the Scottish highlands, whose hero is the legendary maverick outlaw Rob Roy Macgregor.

Lord Winton was taken prisoner in the Battle of Preston, and although he was sentenced to death, he escaped from the Tower to France and died in Rome, December 19, 1749. Cf. DNB.

The outlaw Rob Roy MacGregor was already a legendary, disputed figure by the time Scott wrote - a heroic Scottish Robin Hood to some, an over-glamorised, unprincipled predator to others.

This book is the first thorough account of the Jacobite rebellion that might have killed the Act of Union in its infancy.

An attack on the Jacobites, occasioned by the Rebellion of 1715.