Soon after, Murtagh brought an Englishwoman named Claire Beauchamp to Dougal, having rescued her from being raped by Captain Randall. Captain Randall and his dragoons pursued the Scots and engaged them in a confrontation, during which Jamie dislocated his shoulder.

In the spring of 1743, Jamie returned to Scotland with his godfather Murtagh, and once in the Highlands they were found by Dougal and his men, who were absconding with lifted cattle. Anne de BeauprГ© in France, where Jamie's uncle Alexander Fraser was abbot. Returning once more to Scotland in 1742, Jamie traveled the countryside with a gang of broken men вЂ“ men without clans вЂ“ for six months, raiding cattle and the like from the borderlands, when one day someone hit Jamie in the back of the head with an axe, and his uncle Dougal had him sent to recover (or die) from his injury at the Abbey of Ste. Jamie then fled to France to join his best friend, Ian Murray, as a mercenary in the French army, where he stayed for two years. Jamie as depicted by Hoang Nguyen for The Exile: An Outlander Graphic NovelД«y the time he had escaped, though, he had word that his father had died of an apoplexy, apparently caused by his distress after Jamie's second flogging, when it looked as though Jamie had died. After his second flogging, friends came to help Jamie escape a second time, and in the process one of the guards was killed thence Jamie had a price of ten pounds Sterling on his head for murder. While still recovering, Captain Jonathan 'Black Jack' Randall ordered that he be given another hundred lashes for theft. He escaped, but the English pursued him and brought him back to the fort, where he was flogged with one hundred lashes for escaping. ДЄfter Jamie had returned home to Lallybroch, in October of 1740 he was arrested by the English for obstruction вЂ“ that is, for defending his family and property when the English set upon his home вЂ“ and then taken to Fort William for imprisonment. At eighteen, Jamie went to Paris to study at the UniversitГ© and lived with his father's cousin, Jared Fraser. At sixteen, Jamie lived for a year at Castle Leoch, seat of the Clan MacKenzie. Jamie had been previously taught some left-handed swordsmanship by the factor at Lallybroch, John Murray, his best friend Ian's father. Dougal, left-handed like Jamie, taught him to wield a sword with both hands. His older sister, Jenny, then aged ten, took on the running of the household after their mother's death, and their father Brian raised them both to adulthood.ДЄround age fourteen, Jamie went to foster with his maternal uncle, Dougal MacKenzie, at Beannachd, his uncle's home. The family suffered another blow when Ellen died in childbed, along with the baby, when Jamie was about eight years old. From then on, he was raised to be the future laird of Broch Tuarach, the more official name of the estate. He was very close to his older brother, William, and was devastated when his brother died of smallpox when Jamie was only six or so. Jamie was born to Ellen and Brian Fraser in the Scottish Highlands, at their family home of Lallybroch. 3.1 Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade.

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