Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: VaBuchan Barons veAuchmacoy vaiva vateveri veumambo vakavimbika uye vatsigiri veImba yaStuart. Thomas Buchan uyo akanga ari mwanakomana wechitatu wemukuru James Buchan weAuchmacoy, akanga ari musoja ane unyanzvi akarwa muFrance neHolland. Akashanda muDouglas's Scots Regiment iyo yakanga yaunganidzirwa mambo weFrance. Muna 1686 akagadzwa sa colonel mu Earl of Mar's regiment naJames VII weScotland. Gare gare akabatana naJohn Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee. Pashure pokunge Dundee aurayiwa pa
Muhondo yeKilliecrankie muna 1689 Buchan akagadzwa semutungamiri mukuru wemauto ose aJacobite muScotland uye akagamuchira basa rake kubva kuna mambo muIreland. Mukuru Buchan akavhiringidza muvengi nesimba rake ravarwi vaifamba netsoka vane zviuru zvine gumi nezviviri. Zvisinei, pana 1 May 1690 akashamiswa uye akakundwa neuto rehurumende rakasimba raiva pasi paGeneral Hugh Mackay paHondo yeCromdale. Buchan zvisinei akatiza uye akabatana nemauto neClan Farquharson uyo akamukurudzira kuti atore zvekare kurwisa uye vakafamba kubva kuAbergeldie kuenda kuMearns. Akapikiswa naTenzi waForbes uyo akanga ane simba rakasimba revarwi, asi Buchan akaparadzira mauto ake kuti ape chimiro chehuwandu hwehuwandu uye Forbes akadzokera kuAberdeen, achikonzera kutya muguta. General Hugh Mackay nemauto ake vakabva vaenda kunobata Buchan uye somugumisiro maHighlanders pasi paBuchan akatanga kutsauka.