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| The Battle of Culloden (16 April 1746) was the final clash of the 1745 Jacobite Rising. The Jacobites army, led by Charles Edward Stuart, known as "Bonnie Prince Charlie", was decimated by the army of the Hanoverian British Government commanded by the Duke of Cumberland .. Culloden dealt the Jacobite cause a final bloody defeat and not only ended the attempts to restore the Stuart line to the throne but also brought an end to the Highland Clans system in Scotland. It was the last battle ever to be fought on British soil. |
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