On Friday, Jacques Etienne Joseph Alexandre MacDonald, Marshal MacDonald, Duke of Tarentum, will be honoured by the unveiling of a plaque in Howbeg in South Uist. He was born in Sedan, Ardennes, France. His father, Neil MacEachen, later MacDonald, came from a Jacobite family and was a close relative of Flora MacDonald, who played a key role in the escape of Prince Charles Edward Stuart after the 1745 Rising failed.
Napoleon's aide honoured
A SOLDIER who rose to become Napoleon's right-hand man is to commemorated in the Western Isles where his father was born.