John Du Cameron

John Du Cameron was a Scottish sergeant in the French army who came back to Scotland to support Bonny Prince Charlie in The 'Forty-Five'. When the rebellion failed he took to the hills with a band of renegades and fought on until he was captured and hanged in 1753. Because of his large size he was better known by the name of Sergeant Mor.[1] He was a brigand to those who opposed him and his victims in the counties in which he operated (Perth, Inverness and Argyle), but a folk hero to those who sympathised with the aims of the rebellion (as shown by the mention of Sergeant Mor in The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond, a poem by Andrew Lang).[2][3][4][5]

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  1. ↑ 'mor' is Scottish Gaelic for 'big' or 'large'. See http://glosbe.com/en/gd/big
  2. ↑ Sergeant Mòr in some sources
  3. ↑ The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond, Representative poetry on line, Retrieved 9 February 2009
  4. ↑ Loyalty of the Clans, Burke's Peerage and Gentry, article from Electric Scotland Retrieved 9 February 2009
  5. ↑ David Stewart (3rd edition 1825). Sketches of The Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland; with details of The Military Service of The Highland Regiments Appendix H, John Dhu Cameron, or Sergeant Mor Page 66.


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