Death
He died in 1719. Ewen's son and successor, John, died in Flanders in 1748. John's son Donald, sometimes called Gentle Lochiel, joined Charles Edward, the Young Pretender in 1745, was wounded at the Battle of Culloden, and escaped to France, dying in the same year as his father.
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