Culloden

It was 13 April when news of Cumberland’s approach reached Charles. Orders were sent for the clans to rendezvous at Culloden House at the edge of Drummossie Moor. The Moor was rough with heather shrubs, small marshes and generally flat, …

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It was 13 April when news of Cumberland’s approach reached Charles. Orders were sent for the clans to rendezvous at Culloden House at the edge of Drummossie Moor. The Moor was rough with heather shrubs, small marshes and generally flat, not typical terrain for a Highland charge. On the night of the 15th, an attempt to surprise the Government troops while still in camp failed and when the men returned to the Moor they were ordered to rest. When Cumberland’s line of battle marched forward on the 16th, Charles army was not nearly ready and far weaker than it should have been. The Jacobite guns opened the battle, but were no match for the Government artillery. The clans were under constant attack by the Government artillery before Charles ordered the clans to charge. In a staggered charge, the Highland line closed. The center clans moved to the right to avoid the boggy ground and there was ferocious hand-to-hand fighting on the Jacobite right. The Highland left had only advanced a short distance when word that the right had been outflanked and the Jacobite right was in retreat.

Culloden, Scotland

The Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force under William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, on Drummossie Moor near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. It was the last pitched battle fought on British soil.

Wikipedia: Battle of Culloden

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