 After deciding to join, Ranald raised 250 clansmen and after the raising of the standard at Glenfinnan, Ranald led 500 men to Dundee arriving there on 8 September and proclaimed James Francis Edward Stuart as king.The Macdonalds of Clanranald were present at the Battle of Prestonpans and the Battle of Falkirk.The Clanranald regiment, led by Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair, which fought at the Battle of Culloden in April 1746, consisted of 200 men.