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Culloden - Great Battles (Paperback)
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Culloden - Great Battles (Paperback)
Series: Great Battles
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Loot Price R364
Discovery Miles 3 640
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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.
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