Battle of Culloden 279 years ago

[MacKenzie]

We should remember that there were more Scots who were against the Jacobite cause than were for it...

Indeed.

And, much like the American Civil War split families, the 1745 uprising split clans.

During the Jacobite rising of 1745 the Clan MacKenzie was divided: The chief, Kenneth MacKenzie, Lord Fortrose, did not support the Jacobites and raised several Independent Highland Companies from the Clan MacKenzie to support the British Government. However, a large part of the Clan Mackenzie followed the chief's cousin, George MacKenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie who was a Jacobite.

Incidentally, the Jacobite MacKenzies following George were stopped at the Battle of Littleferry on April 15 and prevented from joining the rest of the Jacobites at Culloden.