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Culloden - Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire (Paperback)
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Culloden - Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire (Paperback)
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The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major
battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between
Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the
English Royal Army. But this wasn't just a conflict between the
Scots and the English, the battle was also part of a much larger
campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a
French invasion. In Trevor Royle's vivid and evocative narrative,
we are drawn into the ranks, on both sides, alongside doomed
Jacobites fighting fellow Scots dressed in the red coats of the
Duke of Cumberland's Royal Army. And we meet the Duke himself, a
skilled warrior who would gain notoriety due to the reprisals on
Highland clans in the battle's aftermath. Royle also takes us
beyond the battle as the men of the Royal Army, galvanized by its
success at Culloden, expand dramatically and start to fight
campaigns overseas in America and India in order to secure British
interests; we see the revolutionary use of fighting techniques
first implemented at Culloden; and the creation of professional
fighting forces. Culloden changed the course of British history by
ending all hope of the Stuarts reclaiming the throne, cementing
Hanoverian rule and forming the bedrock for the creation of the
British Empire. Royle's lively and provocative history looks afresh
at the period and unveils its true significance, not only as the
end of a struggle for the throne but the beginning of a new global
power.
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