the field. The only part of Urry's army to make a stand was Clan MacLennan, styled the "Bannermen of Kintail", who, as standard bearers to Seaforth, chief of Clan Mackenzie, remained isolated during the Covenanters' flight. They refused to retreat and stood their ground in the face of the Royalist onslaught, refusing to give up the standard of the Mackenzies, the "Cabar Feidh." Offered no quarter by the Gordon cavalry, Ruairidh Mac Gille Fhinnein, chief of his name, and his clansmen, together with some MacRaes and Mathesons, were all cut down. As with most of Montrose's victories, many of the casualties were inflicted after the Covenanter army broke and fled, in a merciless pursuit which was continued for . Aftermath Montrose had destroyed half the Covenanter forces arrayed against him. Urry later turned his coat once again and joined Montrose. A pub/restaurant, previously named "The Covenanter" and now the "1645" in commemoration of the battle, stands on part of the old battlefield at the end of Auldearn. The battle and the Royalist campaign of 1644–1645 in general feature in the 1937 novel And No Quarter by Irish writer Maurice Walsh, told from the perspective of two members of O'Cahan's Regiment. Citations References General references Buchan, J. Montrose, 1938. Cowan, E. J., Montrose. For Covenant and King, 1995. MacDonald, John, Orian Iain Lom. Songs of John MacDonald, Bard of Keppoch, ed. and trans. A. M. Mackenzie, 1964. Macleod, R. H., The Battle of Auldearn, 9 May 1645, in The Seventeenth Century in the Highlands, Inverness Field Club, 1986 . O'Danachair, C. O., Montrose's Irish Regiments, in Irish Sword, 1959–60. Reid, S., The Campaigns of Montrose, 1990. Ruthven, Patrick Gordon of, A Short Abridgement of Britane's Distemper, 1844. Stevenson, D., Alasdair MacColla and the Highland Problem in the Seventeenth Century, 1980. Wishart, George, The Memoirs of James Marquis of Montrose, trans. A. D. Murdoch and H. F. Moorland-Simpson, 1893. External links Battles involving Scotland Battles of the Scottish Civil War 1645 in Scotland Clan Fraser Conflicts in 1645 Auldearn History of the Scottish Highlands