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It is thought that Allan Cameron, XVI Captain and
Chief of Clan Cameron had little to do with this raid/battle, since he was
in his eighty-third year of age and was reportedly in Argyll at the time
it occurred. The raid itself consisted of Cameron men lifting a large number of cattle from the
Grant lands of Moyness in Morayshire.
Forty-seven years in the past
they had raided these same lands ("The First Raid of
Moyness") when they
were under control of the Dunbars. During the 1645 raid the Grants gave chase, catching
the Camerons in the Braes of Strathdearn, where the Cameron men were defeated
and many clansmen slain. As of October 18th, as reported in a letter
from Allan to James Grant, there were "eight dead already and I have twelve
or thirteen under cure, which I know not who shall die or who shall live
of the same." As related by Allan, his men did not realize that the
lands of Moyness were under Grant control and that if they had, then they
would not have conducted the raid.
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