It was the last pitched battle fought on British soil.Ĭharles was the eldest son of James Stuart, the exiled Stuart claimant to the British throne. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force under Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, on Drummossie Moor near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. The Battle of Culloden ( / k ə ˈ l ɒ d ən/ Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Chùil Lodair) was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
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