OPENING SHOTS The redcoats open fire on the Jacobites, as re-enactors bring the last battle of the ‘Forty-Five’ rising to life
NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND, CULLODEN X1, GETTY X1
Massacre of the clans
Five miles east of Inverness, on a bleak, windswept moor on 16 April 1746, two armies faced each other. For one of the commanders, Charles Edward Stuart, this was the culmination of a journey that had begun the previous July, when he landed in the Outer Hebrides. He had come to lead a French-backed bid to claim the British throne for his father, the exiled James Stuart.
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