Outlander
Warning ! SPOILERS about Outlander season 7 , episode 5 and the Outlander books ahead . Jamie ’s worry that Fort Ticonderoga would have been expunged was prompted by discover about Simon Fraser of Balnain fight for the English as a Brigadier - General under John Burgoyne inOutlanderseason 7 , episode 5 . The end ofOutlanderseason 7 , episode 5 establish Jamie right about the fort ’s weaknesses and how a Highlander would think to apply the terrain to their reward . However , the episode also introduced a relative of Jamie that is central to the fib ofAn Echo in the Bone , Outlander ’s 7th book on which season 7 is based , even if his side of the family was n’t really introduced before inOutlander .
The American Revolution already go out Jamie and Claire in a mess because they have sex who would have won it and because Jamie ’s biological Logos William Ransom was blithely willing to crusade for the English . Simon Fraser of Balnain also agitate for the English not only add up another person related to Jamie whom he could have met on the battlefield but also signify that someone who knew how to use the environs to his advantage fought against the Continental Army . Although Simon Fraser caused the Continental Army problem at the last ofOutlanderseason 7 , episode 5 , he will also be implemental to the furthering of Jamie and Claire ’s floor .
Simon Fraser Is Connected To Jamie Through His Grandfather, Simon of Lovat
Jamie telling Claire who Simon Fraser of Balnain was inOutlanderseason 7 , installment 5 made a point to explicate how it was n’t the “ Old Fox you receive or his son , ” referring to Jamie ’s famous grandfather that was introduce inOutlanderseason 2 , installment 8 , “ The Fox ’s Lair . ” Jamie ’s grandpa Simon Fraser , 11th Lord of Lovat , is the link betweenOutlander ’s fictitious report and the Scotch real chronicle , and it ’s through him that the connection of Simon Fraser of Balnain to Jamie can be explained . The veridical Simon Fraser , 11th Lord of Lovat , was the boy of Thomas Fraser of Beaufort , 10th Lord of Lovat , who had Hugh Fraser as a blood brother , among many others .
Jamie introduce Simon Fraser of Balnain as a second cousin , son of Alexander Fraser of Balnain , merge once againOutlander ’s fiction with Scottish history , as the history of Clan Fraser of Balnain explains the Frasers of Balnain as having receive lands from a Lord Lovat named Hugh . Hugh Fraser of Balnain received the land from Hugh of Lovat and had as a son Alexander Fraser of Balnain , whose son was Simon Fraser of Balnain . This way , Outlanderseason 7explains Jamie ’s connection to his second full cousin through the Old Fox himself , Simon Fraser , Lord of Lovat , and his father , Thomas Fraser of Beaufort .
Simon’s Death Makes Jamie & Claire’s Trip To Scotland Possible In The Books
Outlanderseason 7 halt Jamie , Claire , and untried Ian ’s stumble to Scotland because Cornelius Harnett conscript Jamie to fight at Fort Ticonderoga . However , Simon Fraser of Balnain is the key to continuing their journey back to Scotland inAn Echo in the Bone , Outlander ’s seventh book . Simon ’s fatal wound during the second struggle of Saratoga makes it possible for Jamie and Claire to see him under a flag of truce in the book .
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Jamie and Claire ’s trip to Scotland is only speed up because Jamie desire to impart Simon ’s body back to Scotland so that his phratry can bury him . Considering how the second fight of Saratoga also has Jamie narrowly missing shooting William in the head , Simon Fraser of Balnain ’s death in the seventhOutlanderbook proves the only way Jamie could distance himself from the engagement , trying to keep his hope not to be on the paired side of his son on a field of battle . Hopefully , in further this story , Outlanderseason 7 will soon countenance Jamie and Claire on their elbow room to Scotland .
