BATTLE OF CULLODEN

BARRELL'S REGIMENT (4TH FOOT) AT THE BATTLE OF CULLODEN, 1746
 By D. Morier
Forty-Five, the  Jacobite rebellion of 1745, led by Prince  Charles Edward Stuart. With his army of Highlanders `Bonnie Prince Charlie´  occupied Edinburgh and advanced into England as far as Derby, but then turned back. The rising was crushed by the Duke of Cumberland at Culloden in 1746.
Culloden, Battle of  Defeat in 1746 of the Jacobite rebel army of the British prince Charles Edward Stuart (the `Young Pretender´) by the Duke of Cumberland on a stretch of moorland in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
This battle effectively ended the military challenge of the Jacobite rebellion.
Although both sides were numerically equal (about 8,000 strong), the English were a drilled and disciplined force, while the Jacobites were a ragbag mixture of French, Irish, and Scots, ill-disciplined and virtually untrained.
The English front line opened the battle with a volley of musketry, after which the Jacobites charged and broke through the first English line but were caught by the musket fire of the second line. They retired in confusion, pursued by the English cavalry which broke the Jacobite lines completely and shattered their force. About 1,000 were killed and a further 1,000 captured, together with all their stores and cannon.
Culloden Muir  Heath in Highland unitary authority, Scotland, about 8 km/5 mi east of Inverness, on which the Battle of  Culloden took place 16 April 1746.  Culloden was the last pitched battle fought on British soil.
A cairn (a burial mound made of stones) and green mounds mark the soldiers' graves.