Dundee's forces in the 1689 rising, said that Dundee had nicknamed Keppoch "Coll of the Cowes" due to his ability to find cattle to feed the army even "when they were driven to the hills out of the way". Napier, in his Memoirs of Dundee, said that the original record showed that Colt had actually said that Dundee had used the nickname "Colonel of the Cows", and that later writers had mistaken the abbreviation "Col." in the records as referring to Keppoch's first name, Coll. References Scottish clan chiefs People of the Jacobite rising of 1715 Scottish Jacobites Alumni of the University of St Andrews Coll