Culloden

Today we visited Culloden....... some info from the internet follows:

The Battle of Culloden  was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart fought loyalist troops commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, near Inverness. 
Charles Stuart never again mounted any further attempts to challenge Hanoverian power in Great Britain. The conflict was the last pitched battle fought on British soil.
Charles Stuart's Jacobite army consisted largely of  Scottish Highlanders, as well as a number of Lowland Scots and a small detachment of Englishmen from the Manchester Regiment. The Jacobites were supported and supplied by the Kingdom of France from Irish and Scots units in the French service.The British Government (Hanoverian loyalist) forces were mostly  English, along with a significant number of Scottish Lowlanders and Highlanders, a battalion ofUlstermen and some Hessians from Germany. The quick and bloody battle on Culloden Moor was over in less than an hour when after an unsuccessful Highland charge against the government lines, the Jacobites were routed and driven from the field.


The battle and its aftermath continue to arouse strong feelings.
Efforts were subsequently taken to further integrate the comparatively wild Highlands into the Kingdom of Great Britain; civil penalties were introduced to weaken Gaelic culture and attack the Scottish clan system.