A really interesting update on current archaeological investigations at #Culloden Battlefield. Well worth a listen if you have 22mins to spare. #BattleOfCulloden #Scotland

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Scotland Outdoors - The Battle of Culloden - BBC Sounds

Mark Stephen visits Culloden Battlefield after a recent archaeological dig there

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Memorial #cairn standing where the #BattleOfCulloden was fought 279 years ago today on 16 April 1746. Taken April 2024.

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Battle of Culloden & its Aftereffects (Podcast) - Random Scottish History

I know there are folk still hark back to the days of Culloden as a time where Scottish spirit was strong & couldn't be daunted. That's true to a point but the battle itself was an unmitigated disaster. A badly planned, badly executed, & badly led, farce. For the post which accompanies this podcast, with

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Culloden - Random Scottish History

[Extra Articles Contents] The Battle of Culloden, or ‘45 Rebellion, was really part 2 of a civil war and was borne of sentiments that hadn’t been dampened any after the Rebellion of 1715. Pretty quickly after the Union with England was concluded the same lords who got cushy seats and not-so-anonymous sums of money realised

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16th of April – Battle of Culloden - Random Scottish History

Eighteen martyrs of Saragossa, 304. St Turibius, Bishop of Astorga, about 420. St Fructuosus, Archbishop of Braga, 665. St Magnus, of Orkney, martyr, 1104. St Druon, recluse, patron of shepherds, 1186. St Joachim of Sienna, 1305. - Born. - Sir Hans Sloane, naturalist, 1660, Killileagh; John Law, speculative financier, 1671, Edinburgh. Died. - George Louis,

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278 years ago today. The last pitched battle fought on the British mainland saw Jacobite forces under Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) suffer a crushing defeat at the Battle of Culloden, east of Inverness, on 16 April 1746. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/inverness/culloden/index.html

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Culloden Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland

Information about and images of Culloden battlefield near Inverness on Undiscovered Scotland.

277 years ago today. The last pitched battle fought on the British mainland saw Jacobite forces under Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) suffer a crushing defeat at the Battle of Culloden, east of Inverness, on 16 April 1746. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/inverness/culloden/index.html

#Scotland #BattleOfCulloden #Culloden #Battle #Inverness #Jacobites #UndiscoveredScotland

Culloden Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland

Information about and images of Culloden battlefield near Inverness on Undiscovered Scotland.

Battle of Culloden & its Aftereffects

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