Allan Maclean of Torloisk
Participating in the Jacobite rising of 1746, and fighting at the Siege of Fort William and Battle of Culloden with the Maclachlans and Macleans battalion, he spent the next four years in exile, including in the service of France during War of the Austrian Succession, again in the Scots brigade in the rank of a lieutenant at Bergen Op Zoom in 1747, where he and Francis McLean were taken prisoner after they were part of the brigade that cut their way through the French lines.After being severely wounded at Ticonderoga on 8 July 1758 while with James Abercromby's troops taking part in the assault against Montcalm's forces in Fort Carillon.He served as a temporary captain under Wolfe at the taking of Quebec[7] and on 16 January 1759 was given Captaincy of the Third New York Independent Company, being present at the siege of Niagara in July, where he was again dangerously wounded.Returning to England not in the rank of a Major, Allan begun to court Janet Maclean in Glasgow[8] whom he had met earlier, and who came to London to be closer to him.On 4 February 1771 he wed Janet at the Monkwell Presbyterian Meeting House though she was half his age,[9] which included a piper, at that time still forbidden in London.However, on arrival Maclean was warned that going into the city in his regimental uniform would invite attacks from the rebels, and that the British garrison had departed to Boston.MacLean Memorial School is located in the town of Chibougamau in the Northern Quebec region about 230 km north from St-Félicien (Lac St-Jean).