| On a cold drizzly day in April
in the year of Our Lord 1746, two armies faced each other across a bleak
moor near the town of Inverness in the north of Scotland. One of them was
made up of what were in effect tribal levies who, ostensibly fighting to
restore the Stuart dynasty to the throne of Britain, were actually making
a last stand for their ancient way of life.
The battle lasted for less than an hour and the outnumbered Highland clansmen were crushed by a storm of grapeshot and musketry fired by the redcoated government troops. It was the last battle ever fought on the soil of mainland Britain. The moor was called Drumossie, the clansmen Jacobites and their leader Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender. The battle was called Culloden |
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