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This huge cairn on Culloden Battlefield or more correctly Drumossie Moor to the south east of Inverness, marks the last pitched battle to have taken place on British soil, in which the Jacobite army under Bonnie Prince Charlie was defeated by the Hanoverian army under the command of the Duke of Cumberland. Some 1,200 Scotsmen and 310 Englishmen died on 16th April 1746 in a battle which was won by the superior tactical strategy of the English, who out-maneouvred a Scottish army, tired by a series of long campaigns. Cumberland's infamy is remembered by the fact that he had all survivors put to the sword, earning him the nickname "The Butcher Cumberland". |
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