Randall meets the woman again some weeks later, when Dougal MacKenzie brings her to meet at an inn in Brockton, and introduces her as Mistress Claire Beauchamp. Any further interrogation is cut short when he is knocked unconscious and the woman was gone when he awoke. Upon hearing her educated English accent, Randall becomes suspicious of her presence in the remote Scottish Highlands. While in hot pursuit of a band of Highland cattle raiders, Captain Jonathan Randall of His Majesty's Eighth Dragoons stumbles upon a woman wandering the countryside in what appear to be her undergarments. She laughed at him, infuriating him even more, and he hit her hard enough to knock her unconscious, and the men left the farm. ![]() Once inside with Jenny, Randall made some attempt to ready himself to rape her, though as Jenny observed, he experienced some difficulty in doing so. Eventually she acquiesced, and one of the soldiers knocked Jamie out and tied him up in the wagon. The girl's response provoked Randall into holding his dagger against Jamie's throat. When he'd finished, Randall taunted the sister, inviting her to take him inside the house to spare Jamie. Randall's men stripped off Jamie's shirt and bound him to their wagon, whence Randall beat him across the back with the flat of his saber. After hearing his sister, Jenny, in distress, nineteen-year-old Jamie Fraser attempted to defend his sister and his property, but soon gave it up when Randall pointed a pistol at the young woman's head. With a levy imposed on the farms surrounding Fort William to oblige officers with supplies and food for the garrison, Randall and his men were on such a mission in October 1740 when they stopped at Lallybroch, and met resistance from its inhabitants. In late 1739, he became garrison commander at Fort William, succeeding Captain Buncombe. In the 1735, Randall bought his commission and served as a captain of dragoons. ![]() His elder brother, Edward Randall, inherited the family estate in Sussex, while his younger brother, Alexander, became a curate. His father was knighted in the late 17th century, and was awarded a baronetcy by King George I. Jonathan was the second son of Sir Denys Randall and Jessica Wolverton.
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