Virtual Tour of Culloden Moor & the Battle of Culloden History Lesson

hello my name's Hamish MacDonald and today I'm standing on Culloden burr as the 16th of April 2020 and today is a very significant date and the Scottish historical calendar this is the anniversary actually the 274,000 Aversa day of the Battle of Culloden which was fought on the 16th of April 1746 you may be able to see the red flag behind me because I'm standing at a spot we are the Duke of Cumberland who's in command of the Hanoverian government army assembled his trips they were fighting the Jacobites who had gathered on the opposite side of the moon I'm going to make a few short video clips describing parts of the battlefield as I go now it's eerily quiet here today normally in the 16th of April that made lots of tourists and visitors but because of lockdown the place is very quiet only a handful of people walking the dogs because we're under lockdown I'm allowed to walk from a house and this is two and a half miles from a house so this is on my daily walk across : and then I'll show you about more of the battle as we go so I'm standing the government Lane we are Duke of Cumberlands troops assembled okay so we're gonna walk across part of the battlefield and this is very somber part of the battlefield this is where many of the climbs are buried this is the wail of the dead and this is the stone where the chief of the flying McGilvery fell so this was one of the Jacobite Warriors who fail right in front of the government lanes they must to get quite far advanced of the field of battle I don't know if you can hear but all you can hear today is the sound of the sky locks which is a very prominent sound here in Culloden Moor I'm walking up there's more stones up here they reckon there are something like 1500 Jacobite dead buried on this ground saw as really a mass grave it really has a very powerful and poignant place to be particularly today on the 16th of April and here's another stone ah this is for the fallen of the Kleins McGilvery mclean mclaughlin and the Ethel Highlanders so again these were all Jacobite soldiers there's another line of thorns here we have the klein stewart of happened for the fallen of the klein stewart someone's left the white rose here which was the symbol of a prince Charlie who led the Jacobites people leave all sorts of mementos that really is very sad and this is for the Fallen of the client karbolyn and further up here as we go this is for the fallen of the client Macintosh I'm actually McDonald the McDonald a memorial is on another part of the field which I'm not covering just now and here we have another story I hope you can hear those skylarks absolutely beautiful I had the paper earlier but it was quite far in the distance this is for the MEXT clans you can see somebody's left a wreath there and a badge for the clan McMullan so right in the middle of the field that is the big monument to all the Fallen Jacobites we'll just walk to one star I'll show you something about this there's an inscription on this one well you're not getting dizzy with all this movement and this says the Battle of Culloden was fought on this mere 16th April 1746 the graves of the gallant Highlanders who fought for Scotland and Prince Charlie are marked by the names of their clans though these things are here they look like they've been taught cheese they look like wheat fresh they would maybe I know people carry torches here at night on the anniversary of the battle so it looks like people have been out at night with their torches hello I'm sitting just in the back of the monument to the Fallen clans and they I'll tell you about about the background of the Battle of Culloden it's very complex but basically king james ii was a stuart king who was deposed and overthrown in 1688 due to the Glorious Revolution in the act of settlement and he fled to France his son was the exile Prince Charles Edward Stuart who became known as Bonnie Prince Charlie there were several attempts to restore the Stuart monarchy there were various Jacobite rebellions and uprisings and in 1745 Charles Edward Stuart the son of James ii landed in the West of Scotland in July 1745 and he raised the Highland clans they assembled an army and they advanced through through Scotland they had this ace of battles president pans and Falkirk and they marched to Darby as far as Darby in England their plan was to go to London and seize the crown for the Jacobite cause the ton back from Darby because the government forces were beginning to close in on them they came to Inverness for the winter where they had a lot of trouble getting supplies so by the time I reached April 1746 the poorly equipped and poorly supplied Jacobite army many of them are actually in the verge of starvation and they assembled on the other side of the moon we are we faced a very superior a well-fed and well-stocked government army who are equipped with a watch baton of teller a and vastly superior force so the chances were very very slim of victory but they assembled nonetheless and the commander Charles Edward sure I don't take you to the spot where the Highland clans and the northeast regiments and the Irish pickets and the French soldiers who made up the Jacobite army assembled some standing at the spot where the jacobi army assembled under the command the Charles Edward Stuart Bonnie Prince Charlie they would face of course the government army and the other say duramir when I began this story and why is the Battle of Culloden so important and why is it seen as a watershed moment in Scottish history well it's really as much to do with the aftermath of the battle and the implications that would have as the battle itself the battle was a very bloody and brittle affair no quarter was given which meant the wounded were slaughtered in the field where they lay and after the battle the victorious say Hanoverian government soldiers the Redcoats advance then T Inverness and into the rest of the highlands where they carried out a policy of brutality which is our real impact on Gallic culture this was recorded this campaign was recorded in a book called the lion in mourning which was a collection of eyewitness accounts which were a put together by Bishop Robert Forbes who was an Episcopalian Bishop these catalogued some of the terrible brutalities that were carried out by the Hanoverian soldiers the Gallic language and the bike pates and hail and dress were prescribed and this was the beginning of the end for the clan system so massive implications for Scottish and garlic culture the Bartlett Culloden today is still viewed as a very poignant moment and the very important moment in Scottish history so a little bit about the backgrounds you can learn a lot more of course if you go online or read some books so hopefully that's given you something of the flavor a flavor and a little bit of the backdrop to the Battle of Culloden

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Length: 8min 54sec (534 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 16 2020