1. Gentleman’s Magazine, IX (June 1739).
2. Cited in S. E. M. Carpenter, ‘Patterns of Recruitment of the Highland Regiments of the British Army, 1756 to 1815’, unpublished M.Litt. thesis, University of St Andrews (1977), p. 33.
3. W. Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to 1803, vol. XIV (1816), p. 278.
4. David Stewart of Garth, Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland (repr. Edinburgh, 1877), vol. I, p. 303.
5. Ibid.
6. Cited in Robert Clyde, From Rebel to Hero: The Image of the Highlander, 1745–1830 (East Linton, 1995), p. 187.
7. Andrew Mackillop, ‘More Fruitful than the Soil’ (East Linton, 2000), passim. See also Matthew P. Dziennick, The Fatal Land (London, 2015).
8. Donald MacLeod, Gloomy Memories in the Highlands of Scotland (Glasgow, 1892), p. 1.
9. Alexander Mackenzie, The History of the Highland Clearances (Inverness, 1883), pp. 168–9.
10. Heather Streets, Martial Races (Manchester, 2004), p. 180; John Mackenzie, ed., Popular Imperialism and the Military 1850–1950 (Manchester, 1992), p. 38.