{"id":11156,"date":"2024-06-12T10:04:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T10:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/?page_id=11156"},"modified":"2026-10-14T17:32:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T17:32:48","slug":"donald-macleod-the-old-trojan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/gd\/donald-macleod-the-old-trojan\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald MacLeod \u2013 The Old Trojan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull hp-head has-tertiary-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group hp-head__text is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div style=\"--bb--crumb-gap:.4em\" class=\"hide-current-page wp-block-boldblocks-breadcrumb-block\"><nav role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\" class=\"breadcrumb\"><ol class=\"breadcrumb-items\"><li class=\"breadcrumb-item breadcrumb-item--current breadcrumb-item--home\"><span class=\"breadcrumb-item-name\">Dhachaidh<\/span><\/li><\/ol><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<h1 class=\"hp-rule wp-block-post-title\">Donald MacLeod \u2013 The Old Trojan<\/h1>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull hp-sec has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group hp-longread has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-712dccf8 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"hp-lead wp-block-paragraph\">Donald MacLeod of Bearnairaigh \u2013 nicknamed The Old Trojan \u2013 was a Jacobite supporter. When his chief, MacLeod of Dunvegan, called for him to provide 20 men for the Hanoverian army he did so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But he sent MacLeod a message declaring that he would normally have served at their head but he had a more imperious duty which called him. He then joined the Jacobite army!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Culloden, he spent some time in hiding in a cave on Sron Ulladal, one of the hills in the North Harris deer-forest, and later at Gob na Tobha, the headland at Taobh Tuath. Donald MacLeod\u2019s grave is at St Clement\u2019s Church at Roghadal.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald MacLeod of Bearnairaigh \u2013 nicknamed The Old Trojan \u2013 was a Jacobite supporter. When his chief, MacLeod of Dunvegan, called for him to provide 20 men for the Hanoverian army he did so. 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