Battle of Culloden
Part of the Jacobite rising of 1745The Battle of Culloden 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, thereby ending the Jacobite rising of 1745.
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AI Generated- 23 July 1745The Jacobite rising of 1745 began when Charles Edward Stuart landed in the Western Isles.
- July 1745Charles Edward Stuart sought to restore his father James Francis Edward Stuart to the British throne.
- 16 April 1746The Battle of Culloden took place near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.
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