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Isabel Mackenzie was a real person, written up by a couple of parsons who met her at the end of the eighteenth century.
Her career began in 1745 as a young teenager when she abandoned the sheep she was herding to run off with a Black Watch sergeant. Within a few months she had become the mistress of a captain and joined him in Flanders. He was killed at the Battle of Fontenoy where the British and their allies fought the forces of the French. There were 20,000 casualties. Isabel was captured and wounded helping a British cavalry commander escape. He was an earl, an aide to the British commander, the Duke of Cumberland, and became her lover.
She returned with him to England and followed him in the campaign against Bonnie Prince Charlie's Rising which ended at the battle of Culloden. Along the way she became involved with the rebel army.
Isabel was an adventuress who ignored the conventions of her time to forge a remarkable career following the British army in Europe and America. Along the way she bore 24 children, some by her husband, and made a fortune.
This is the first volume of her fictional memoirs, looking back when she was a old woman running an inn in the midst of the Cairngorm mountains in the Highlands of Scotland. The momentous events she writes about took place. The men she meets were historical figures. All that is open to question is the truth of the extent to which she claims to have influenced them.
Her career began in 1745 as a young teenager when she abandoned the sheep she was herding to run off with a Black Watch sergeant. Within a few months she had become the mistress of a captain and joined him in Flanders. He was killed at the Battle of Fontenoy where the British and their allies fought the forces of the French. There were 20,000 casualties. Isabel was captured and wounded helping a British cavalry commander escape. He was an earl, an aide to the British commander, the Duke of Cumberland, and became her lover.
She returned with him to England and followed him in the campaign against Bonnie Prince Charlie's Rising which ended at the battle of Culloden. Along the way she became involved with the rebel army.
Isabel was an adventuress who ignored the conventions of her time to forge a remarkable career following the British army in Europe and America. Along the way she bore 24 children, some by her husband, and made a fortune.
This is the first volume of her fictional memoirs, looking back when she was a old woman running an inn in the midst of the Cairngorm mountains in the Highlands of Scotland. The momentous events she writes about took place. The men she meets were historical figures. All that is open to question is the truth of the extent to which she claims to have influenced them.
