Battle of Culloden
April 16, 1746
On a bleak moor outside Inverness, in forty minutes, Cumberland's regulars shattered the exhausted Highland army of Charles Edward Stuart. The Pretender fled, eventually to France in a fishing boat. Cumberland earned the name Butcher for the reprisals that followed. Tartan, pibroch, and the Gaelic way of life were outlawed in the cabin ash.
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