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Battle of Culloden

The 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.

Battle of Culloden
Battle of Culloden · David Morier, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
27 Apr 1746
Where
Culloden
Era
Early Modern

Topics

United Kingdom43 CE – todayKingdom of Great Britain1626 – 1838

Before and after

Jacobite rising of 17451745 – 1746Battle of Piacenza1746Show on timeline

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