 Claverhouse, better known to his enemies as 'Bluidy Clavers', had recently been appointed captain, with a mission to disperse conventicles in south west Scotland.A group of around 200 armed Covenanters moved east, to a boggy moor near the farm of Drumclog.With about 40 mounted men, and armed with muskets and pitchforks, the Covenanter force was no rabble.