Well that certainly got my attention!

John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun was defeated in the Rout of Moy, no? Is that where he met Lady Anne MacKintosh, or was it after Culloden? I had no prior knowledge that he and she were lovers. Where was her husband?

This whole period is strange to me. I had read that she had helped her husband, the MacKintosh of MacKintosh raise a regiment on the Hanoverian side. Later she raised Clan Chattan on the Jacobite side. Then I read she is lovers with a Hanoverian Earl. I can't tell if this is comic or tragic; I can't even understand it.

Later, a relative of her husband's had the position of General from Georgia for George Washington while most of the other Chiefly sons of Clan Chattan fought on the Loyalist side in the War of Independence (Macpherson and Macbean for sure).

Anyone care to shed light on my confusion? Thistledown perhaps?