On 16 February 1746, government forces acting under the leadership of Lord Louden, failed in an attempt to capture Charles Edward Stuart ( Bonnie Prince Charlie ) at the village of Moy in the Scottish Highlands.

Louden's forces were defeated by a small band of Jacobites who managed to convince the troops that they were a larger army than was actually the case. There was one fatality, Duncan MacCrimmon, the hereditary piper to the MacLeods of Dunvegan.