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There is maybe a hint of criticism when the woman at Achnacarry asks why the Prince ever came to Scotland and Ewen can't answer her - in the midst of the tragedy that that cascading chain of loyalties, from the Prince through the clan chiefs to the clansmen has brought on Lochaber.

Keith provides a POV character for criticism of Jacobitism, but he doesn't seem much troubled by the powerlessness of the rank and file on either the Jacobite or Hanoverian side, although he does object to brutality.