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Inverness – Scotland

this is a very beautiful city with the very famous attractions of Loch Ness and Culloden’s Moor more where are they Scots loyalty Prince Charlie and the Catholic Church tried to claim the throne of the union and failed. Toward the bottom or the photos of Culloden.

Culloden’sMoor

What I did not quite understand is how anyone could think to fight a battle in a moor. Some description here indicates some of the advancing Scot’s got stuck in the mud. You can see from the landscape this is not a place to have a battle. Evidently many people advised Charlie to retreat and reform to fight in a different place but he refused. Whether that’s true or not I don’t know But if you visit this place I’m sure you will also be astonished at how difficult this place would’ve been to think of a victory especially with the high-tech weapons on the English side employed by the brother of the king of England, George II. There are a few links below that will help you understand the history.

The Jacobites are the Scots. The term Jacobite comes from the Latin version of James (Jacobus) the father and grandfather of Charles. They believed the true line of succession went through a second marriage and not to siblings of the first marriage of James II.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jacobite-British-history

https://www.wrongsideoftheblanket.com/stuart-family-tree

This is the original house where the wounded English soldiers were taken.
Here are some mixed gravestones marking mass graves of the Jacobites..
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