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Government Ambush qwe8639jhp Scottish Highlands Culloden battlefield centre moor flat ambush government forces site of the last pitched battle fought in the British Isles in 1745 where a short bloody fight saw the decisive defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s rebel army by the loyalist Hanoverian forces under the Duke of Cumberland and which was the Stuart’s last attempt to reclaim their throne. The site near Inverness overlooking the Moray Firth has a new National Trust for Scotland visitors centre, large carpark and all facilities to cater for the many thousands who visit this important place of Scottish history every year. Best perhaps seen on a moody stormy cloud covered day to get a feeling of the sense of brooding sadness that this crucial battle had on the Highlands and its relations with the rest of Scotland and England as this was by no means just a defeat by the ‘English’. An information board at this photo view describes how the government forces ambushed the retreating Highlanders with devastating effects at this point where stone walls where breached on the battlefield. Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Highlands, Inverness, Culloden, Forest, battlefield, Moor, Jacobite, Rising, Prince, Charlie, Bonnie, landscape, ambush, stone, wall, summer, NTS, National, Trust, history, heritage, visitors, centre, conserved, loyalist, government, highlanders, lowlanders, Duke, Cumberland, butcher, rebels, Hanoverian, battle, last, British, soil, defeated, short, duration, bloody, rebellion, end, battlelines, bog, boggy, heather, memorial, graves, markers, mass, burial, flags, grass, moorland, blue, sky, white, clouds
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Scottish Highlands Culloden battlefield centre moor flat ambush government forces

site of the last pitched battle fought in the British Isles in 1745 where a short bloody fight saw the decisive defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s rebel army by the loyalist Hanoverian forces under the Duke of Cumberland and which was the Stuart’s last attempt to reclaim their throne. The site near Inverness overlooking the Moray Firth has a new National Trust for Scotland visitors centre, large carpark and all facilities to cater for the many thousands who visit this important place of Scottish history every year. Best perhaps seen on a moody stormy cloud covered day to get a feeling of the sense of brooding sadness that this crucial battle had on the Highlands and its relations with the rest of Scotland and England as this was by no means just a defeat by the ‘English’. An information board at this photo view describes how the government forces ambushed the retreating Highlanders with devastating effects at this point where stone walls where breached on the battlefield.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Highlands, Inverness, Culloden, Forest, battlefield, Moor, Jacobite, Rising, Prince, Charlie, Bonnie, landscape, ambush, stone, wall, summer, NTS, National, Trust, history, heritage, visitors, centre, conserved, loyalist, government, highlanders, lowlanders, Duke, Cumberland, butcher, rebels, Hanoverian, battle, last, British, soil, defeated, short, duration, bloody, rebellion, end, battlelines, bog, boggy, heather, memorial, graves, markers, mass, burial, flags, grass, moorland, blue, sky, white, clouds