Quote Originally Posted by Allan Thomson View Post
Wasn't there some sort of statistic that more musket and bayonets were recovered from Jacobite forces post 45 than basket hilted broadswords?

Of course with a quartermaster more concerned with picking a poor battlefield than logistics it doesn't suprise that they didn't have enough powder and ball for them....
I don't remember that particular statistic but I do believe that it would be true. Something on the order of 190 swords were retrieved from the battlefield and there just about had to be more muskets picked up.

Supplying anything to the Jacobite force was a problem. They had to rely on French ships to re-supply a lot of what they needed and those supplies did not always make it to shore with the British navy hanging around. Food was another issue, of course and there was little of that. It is remarkable they did all that they did with what little they had in the way of supply.