Memorial Day: Remembering the Scottish Generals of the US War of Independence

[ThistleDown]

Major General Lachlan McIntosh
-Born in Raits, Badenoch, Scotland, son of John Mohr McIntosh, "the head of Clan MacKintosh" (I don't think this is true). Immigrated with father to New Inverness (Darien) Georgia with Oglethorpe's party

Best wishes to you, Mark, and our American cousins, near the end of this Memorial Day weekend.

You are correct in disbelieving this bit of historical narrative. Lacklan Mcintosh (sic) of Revolutionary War fame was the second son of John Mohr Mackintosh who was born 1700 at Raits in Badenoch, emigrated to Georgia in 1736, was a prisoner in Spain from 1740 to 1748 and who died in 1761.

John was the eldest son of Lachlan Mackintosh, who was the second son of the well-known and much beloved Brigadier Mackintosh of Borlum and Raits, an important gentleman of the clan Mackintosh and the Clanchattan, but not its "head".

Rex

[MacBean]

There you are Rex (we've missed you and yours)!

So he descends from Borlum does he? That's most helpful, thanks. There is a lot on him on the web, and much of it interesting reading, particularly his efforts against Detroit in the western marches.

An Alexander MacBean was appointed as recruiter for the Darien colony in Georgia, and returned to Inverness for that purpose.

[MacBean]

Thanks for the great inclusion and link for Hugh Mercer. Cut down on the field of battle was he? I think I'll make a little space for him in my mind and heart next to DeKalb who was cut down while defending the disastrous retreat of the Southern part of the Continental Army.

[macwilkin]

While he wasn't a general, John Paul Jones certainly deserves a mention here as well:

http://www.history.navy.mil/bios/jones_jp.htm
http://www.jpj.demon.co.uk/jpjlife.htm

Fair winds and following seas,

T.