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Culloden Moor is one of the most famous battles in British history and, for the Scots, the battle is pre-eminent, surpassing even Bannockburn. In this decisive and bloody encounter in 1746 the Duke of Cumberland's government army defeated the Jacobite rebels led by Prince Charles Edward Stuart.
Yet, despite the attention paid to this critical event in particular to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite legend few writers have concentrated on the...
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The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 1746, is deservedly remembered as a national tragedy, the first battle on the braes of Killiecrankie was unquestionably the most dramatic.It was very much a Scottish battle. The later Jacobite risings would be launched against kings and governments in London. Killiecrankie, on the other hand, pitted Scot...
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The first campaign medal awarded to British soldiers is, reckoned to be that given to those men who fought at Waterloo in 1815, but a decade and a half earlier a group of regiments were, awarded a unique badge, a figure of a Sphinx, to mark their service in Egypt in 1801.
It was a fitting distinction, for the successful campaign was a remarkable one, fought far from home by a British army which had so far not distinguished itself in battle against...
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