Nigel Tranter incorporates history into his stories, not like John Prebble who is a fact-based journalist, assembling pieces from the annals of time, Tranter is probably similar to Sir Walter Scott in his tales have a fictitious element and there is artistic license. Rob Roy MacGregor was an outlaw who became a folk hero, immortalised in the work, Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott, he became a figure of resistance to colonialism. He had the CV to back this up; he actually fought in the Jacobite Risings. He will be forever remembered as the outsider hero, standing up against foreign colonisation. He waged a private battle against the 1st Duke of Montrose; James Graham after MacGregor failed to pay back a loan and became a wanted man. Many MacGregors can be found in Ireland because they were outlawed because they were not pardoned for their participation in the Jacobite Risings.
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