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It was a pitched battle which was done and dusted in less time than half a football match.
By the climax, thousands of men lay dead or wounded, while others were scattered to the wind, pursued by vengeful forces who hunted down their enemies and either slaughtered them or transported them to the West Indies.
Even now, 275 years later, Culloden is a word which provokes strong emotions among the descendants of those who perished on a brooding, boggy moor, east of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.
Charles Edward Stuart, whose forces were vanquished, is still painted as a romantic figure in some quarters, whose pursuit of the Jacobite cause brought him into direct conflict with the British government.
Culloden s brutality still resonates 275 years after Jacobite rout by Butcher Cumberland
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Culloden s brutality still resonates 275 years after Jacobite rout by Butcher Cumberland
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