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Culloden
/ əˈɒə /
noun
- a moor near Inverness in N Scotland: site of a battle in 1746 in which government troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobites under Prince Charles Edward Stuart
Example Sentences
Developer Springfield Properties has secured outline planning permission to build on farmland near Culloden House, which was Bonnie Prince Charlie's battlefield headquarters.
Members of the prince's Jacobite army marched from nearby Culloden Parks to join the fighting against the Duke of Cumberland's government army.
Springfield Properties said it would have an archaeologist on hand if full planning permission was granted for the development at Milton of Culloden.
The Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746 saw the prince and his forces face King George II's government army, led by the Duke of Cumberland, George's son.
A few days before the battle, Bonnie Prince Charlie commandeered Culloden House as his lodgings and HQ.
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