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Venue: Culloden When: Daily
Marking the site of the last major battle fought on British soil, Culloden - just east of Inverness - is the desolate area that saw the final demise of Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite rebellion on 16 April 1746. The tide had turned since the year before when Prince Charles Edward Stuart had made dangerous inroads into England, and the Jacobite troops were harried by the Duke of Cumberland's English troops having been chased north.
The battle of Culloden took place the day after William Augustus, son of George II and Duke of Cumberland's 25th birthday. He received the bloody sobriquet "butcher" for his harsh treatment of the Jacobites (he was merciless in the carnage throughout the highlands after the battle) but subsequently lost the favour of his father and ended his days - in his forties - after a series of military defeats on mainland Europe. Bonnie Prince Charlie's dreams were totally shattered and, eventually escaping the clutches of the English, after nine months he eloped to Rome. Incredibly, he lived another 43 years, a broken - and drunken - man, although the romance of his story grew.
The National Trust of Scotland, which now owns the site and runs the Culloden Visitor's Centre, has reconstructed the turf and stone dykes that played a crucial part in the battle and reintroduced a small flock of Hebridean sheep to graze there as they did in 1746, to restore the field as close as possible to how it would have looked at the time of the battle.
During the summer visitors can relive the drama of Culloden at Living History presentations in the original Leanach Cottage (now restored), which survived the battle being fought around it. The Trust - which received land on the site from both Hector Forbes of Culloden and the Munro of Leanach family and has subsequently bought adjacent land, cares for the Graves of the Clans, the Well of the Dead, the Memorial Cairn, the Cumberland Stone and the Field of the English. The Visitor Centre encompasses a Jacobite exhibition, including an 18th-century sampler commemorating the battle, as well as a historical display.
Marking the site of the last major battle fought on British soil, Culloden - just east of Inverness - is the desolate area that saw the final demise of Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite rebellion on 16 April 1746. The tide had turned since the year before when Prince Charles Edward Stuart had made dangerous inroads into England, and the Jacobite troops were harried by the Duke of Cumberland's English troops having been chased north.
The battle of Culloden took place the day after William Augustus, son of George II and Duke of Cumberland's 25th birthday. He received the bloody sobriquet "butcher" for his harsh treatment of the Jacobites (he was merciless in the carnage throughout the highlands after the battle) but subsequently lost the favour of his father and ended his days - in his forties - after a series of military defeats on mainland Europe. Bonnie Prince Charlie's dreams were totally shattered and, eventually escaping the clutches of the English, after nine months he eloped to Rome. Incredibly, he lived another 43 years, a broken - and drunken - man, although the romance of his story grew.
The National Trust of Scotland, which now owns the site and runs the Culloden Visitor's Centre, has reconstructed the turf and stone dykes that played a crucial part in the battle and reintroduced a small flock of Hebridean sheep to graze there as they did in 1746, to restore the field as close as possible to how it would have looked at the time of the battle.
During the summer visitors can relive the drama of Culloden at Living History presentations in the original Leanach Cottage (now restored), which survived the battle being fought around it. The Trust - which received land on the site from both Hector Forbes of Culloden and the Munro of Leanach family and has subsequently bought adjacent land, cares for the Graves of the Clans, the Well of the Dead, the Memorial Cairn, the Cumberland Stone and the Field of the English. The Visitor Centre encompasses a Jacobite exhibition, including an 18th-century sampler commemorating the battle, as well as a historical display.
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