Guide to Culloden Moor and Story of the Battle
Author | : Peter Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Cromlechs |
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Author | : Peter Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Cromlechs |
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Author | : Trevor Royle |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Book Group |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2016-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1405514760 |
The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the English Royal Army. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English, the battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French invasion. In Trevor Royle's vivid and evocative narrative, we are drawn into the ranks, on both sides, alongside doomed Jacobites fighting fellow Scots dressed in the red coats of the Duke of Cumberland's Royal Army. And we meet the Duke himself, a skilled warrior who would gain notoriety due to the reprisals on Highland clans in the battle's aftermath. Royle also takes us beyond the battle as the men of the Royal Army, galvanized by its success at Culloden, expand dramatically and start to fight campaigns overseas in America and India in order to secure British interests; we see the revolutionary use of fighting techniques first implemented at Culloden; and the creation of professional fighting forces. Culloden changed the course of British history by ending all hope of the Stuarts reclaiming the throne, cementing Hanoverian rule and forming the bedrock for the creation of the British Empire. Royle's lively and provocative history looks afresh at the period and unveils its true significance, not only as the end of a struggle for the throne but the beginning of a new global power.
Author | : Peter Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1988 |
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ISBN | : 9781559321655 |
Author | : Diana Preston |
Publisher | : Constable Limited |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 |
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Author | : Tony Pollard |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2009-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1781597960 |
A team of historians and archaeologists re-examine what happened at the Battle of Culloden between the Scottish Jacobites and Great Britain. In battle at Culloden Moor on April 16, 1746, the Jacobite cause was dealt a mortal blow. The power of the Highland clans was broken. And the image of sword-wielding Highlanders charging into a hail of lead delivered by the red-coated battalions of the Hanoverian army has passed into legend. The battle was a turning point in British history. And yet our perception of this critical episode tends to be confused by mistaken, sometimes partisan, views of the events on the battlefield. So, what really happened at Culloden? In this fascinating and original book, a team of leading historians and archaeologists reconsiders every aspect of the battle. They examine the latest historical and archaeological evidence, question every assumption, and rewrite the story of the campaign in vivid detail. This is the first time that such a distinguished team of experts has focused on a single British battle. The result is a seminal study of the subject, and it is a landmark publication of battlefield archaeology. Praise for Culloden “Culloden is one of the best documented British battles and also one of the most mapped, yet the contributions to this fine volume have succeeded in finding new material.” —Scotts Magazine (UK)
Author | : Peter Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1867 |
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Author | : Peter Anderson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1874 |
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Author | : L.L. Muir |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2016-12-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781540807694 |
79 Highlanders arose from their graves the day after the Battle of Culloden Moor. Nearly 300 years later, a young lass hopes to re-write history...Soncerae is a Muir Witch whose destiny is to save these Highland warriors who refuse to leave Culloden's hallowed, forever-bloody ground. She can win back their lives, but only for a time. And in that time, she hopes to prove that a heart's true desire can mean so much more than revenge.
Author | : Stuart Reid |
Publisher | : Windrow & Greene Limited |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781859150801 |
The battle fought at Culloden beteen the armies of the Duke of Cumberland and Prince Charles Edward Stewart has passed into history not only as the bloody ruin of the Jacobite cause, but also as a symbol of the final confrontation of two cultures. It has inevitably become entangled in legend and distortion.
Author | : Murray Pittock |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2016-04-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191640697 |
The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite retreat from Derby several months before. But for all this, Culloden is a battle with great significance in British history. It was the last pitched battle on the soil of the British Isles to be fought with regular troops on both sides. It came to stand for the final defeat of the Jacobite cause. And it was the last domestic contestation of the Act of Union of 1707, the resolution of which propelled Great Britain to be the dominant world power for the next 150 years. If the battle itself was short, its aftermath was brutal - with the depredations of the Duke of Cumberland followed by a campaign to suppress the clan system and the Highland way of life. And its afterlife in the centuries since has been a fascinating one, pitting British Whig triumphalism against a growing romantic memorialization of the Jacobite cause. On both sides there has long been a tendency to regard the battle as a dramatic clash, between Highlander and Lowlander, Celt and Saxon, Catholic and Protestant, the old and the new. Yet, as this account of the battle and its long cultural afterlife suggests, while viewing Culloden in such a way might be rhetorically compelling, it is not necessarily good history.