Duke of Cumberland van Keppel John Huske John Mordaunt Henry Hawley
Prince Charles Edward Stuart George Murray Donald Cameron John O'Sullivan John Drummond James Drummond
Strength
6,900–7,200[1]
5,000–6,000[1]
Casualties and losses
c. 50 killed, 259 wounded [2]
1,500–2,000 killed and wounded[3] 376 captured
Designations
Registered battlefield
Reference no.
BTL6
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Jacobite rising of 1745
Highbridge
1st Ruthven
Prestonpans
Culloden House
1st Carlisle
Clifton
2nd Carlisle
1st Fort Augustus
Inverurie
Falkirk
Stirling
2nd Ruthven
Moy
Inverness
2nd Fort Augustus
Atholl
Blair Castle
Keith
Fort William
Dornoch
Tongue
Littleferry
Culloden
Loch nan Uamh
Loch Ailort
Arisaig
Lochaber and Shiramore
Killin
Appin Murder
Rannoch
The Battle of Culloden[a] took place on 16 April 1746, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. A Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, ending the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Charles landed in Scotland in July 1745, seeking to restore his father James Francis Edward Stuart to the British throne. He quickly won control of large parts of Scotland, and an invasion of England reached as far as south as Derby before being forced to turn back. However, by April 1746, the Jacobites were short of supplies, facing a superior and better equipped opponent.
Charles and his senior officers decided their only option was to stand and fight. When the two armies met at Culloden, the battle lasted less than an hour, with the Jacobites suffering a bloody defeat. This ended both the 1745 rising, and Jacobitism as a significant element in British politics.
^ abDuffy 2015, p. 453 passim.
^Pittock 2016, p. ?.
^Harrington 1991, p. 83.
^Collins Dictionary
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