Let us not forget the brave souls that battled on the Culloden Moor those many years ago. This was the end of the Jacobite rebellion and for many years, the Scottish way of life. My visit to this field last September was somber but also very peaceful. If you get a chance, visit the very well done visitors center along with walking on the battlefield. Maybe place a flower or two near the gravestones.
Posted by
Lancaster PA
265 posts
Thank you for the reminder, Linda. It is a somber day and a day to remember the brave souls that fought there.
Posted by
Glasgow, Scotland
1694 posts
I must raise an objection to the phrase 'the Scottish Way Of Life'
Scotland was very divided at the time, much of the lowlands likely the majority were pro the government. The Highlands (Gaelic and often Catholic) were very different to the Lowlands (Scots speaking and largely protestant), the merger of the two cultures came from the 19th C onward. At the time four languages were spoken in Scotland. Scots, Gaelic, English, and Norn depending on where you were and it was the Gaelic Scotland that felt the full brunt of the state after the '45. Ultimately the '45 was an old style dynastic civil war, Prince Charles Edward was a cousin of King George II where the Stuarts used old dynastic claims of loyalty from the clans in the Highlands plus religion against the incomer Hanoverians.
What the '45 marked was the end of the old clan based Highland culture, the repression that followed the '45 was severe and cruel but not that unusual in Europe in the 1740s.
Posted by
OP
Seattle, WA, USA
1423 posts
MC Glasgow, yes, i stand corrected and I appreciate the clarity. Ended “the Highland way of life.”
Posted by
Almost Heaven
3135 posts
Is this the battle that RS referred to the Scots as finally being quelled?