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Culloden battlefield where the last battle on British soil
was fought is just 6 miles east of Accommodation Inverness Hotel (B&B)
Scotland. At the site there is a National Trust visitor centre open April
to October, visitors can walk round the battlefield all year.
Cairn commemorating
the battle
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Highland history took a new direction in 1745
when many of the Highland clans, led by Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie
Prince Charlie), rose against the British Government in a last desperate
attempt to wrest the British Crown back from the Hanoverian dynasty. The
attempt ended in disaster and the revenge of the British Government was
drastic, in many cases the former clan lands were given over to sheep
farmers who over-ran the best countryside with Cheviot sheep. Hundreds of
thousands of displaced persons emigrated to the colonies and to the
cities, which began to grow in the Lowlands because of the industrial
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