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Ghosts Of Culloden

April 16, 2021, by JimC

Today, April 16, 2021, marks the 275th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden Moor, where the last great Jacobite uprising was crushed in a mighty slaughter of the warriors of the Highland Clans.

Their defeat there at the hands of the Duke of Cumberland marked the end of the movement to restore the Stuart dynasty to the British throne, a movement that had flared and guttered repeatedly since James II was run out of England in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The Jacobite underground created as much intrigue as any cold war, and when it burst into a major Rising in 1745, it led the Highland Clans to destruction.

It’s important to note that the 1745 Rising was not simply another major round in the English/Scottish Wars. It was a civil war pitting Lowlanders vs. Highlanders and some of the ever-feuding Highland Clans against one another.

In honor of the day, I invite you to listen to The Frontier Partisans Podcast series on the Highland Scots — A Frontier People:

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

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  1. Matthew says

    April 16, 2021 at 8:59 am

    If anyone hasn’t done this yet; listen to Jim’s podcast. It’s fascinating.

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    • JimC says

      April 16, 2021 at 10:01 am

      Thank you Matthew.

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  2. deuce says

    April 16, 2021 at 8:58 pm

    The last gasp of Gaelic power in Britain. Macpherson–somewhat over-criticized, in my opinion–and Sir Walter Scott would carry on, bards singing of a bygone glory.

    By the way, this year marks the semiquincentennial of Scott’s birth–he was born almost exactly a half-century after Culloden. One of the creators of the modern historical novel and a major influence on REH and many other historical novelists.

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