Word: culloden
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ritgen, as for most veterans, the war is never far from mind. On a trip to Scotland last year, he visited Culloden Moor, the site of the last battle fought between the English and the Scots. Says he: "I would like to think that Normandy began the last battle between West Europeans. It was the start of a new Europe in which we have had 40 years of peace...
Scotland's armed resistance to her union with England ended in 1746, when the kilted army of Bonnie Prince Charlie was crushed at the Battle of Culloden. But Scottish nationalist yearnings never quite died away, and in the past five years the ancient Gaelic quest for independence has become a political force to reckon with. Founded in 1934, the once minuscule Scottish Nationalist Party gained 31% of the vote and eleven seats in Parliament at the 1974 elections, largely on the basis of a platform calling for more autonomy for Scotland and, eventually, full independence...
...force, not taken into account by either side, entered the picture. This was the royal house of Stuart, in the glittering person and presence of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender and son of the exiled Stuart King James III. The handsome, 39-year-old prince was beaten at Culloden in 1746, when the infamous Duke of Cumberland broke the power of the Scottish clans. He fled to France with the price of ? 30,000 on his head, and traveled quietly to Virginia (says Thomas) under an assumed name...
...should Prince Charles expect to be welcomed in Virginia? Because the colony was heavily populated by Highlanders, many of whom had fought under him at Culloden. An additional force of Highlanders was captured by the French at Quebec, paroled, and then marched South to vex their former British masters. The British were unpopular in Virginia anyway, since they taxed whisky stills and kept recruiting farm boys to fight the French in howling wilderness...
LOWELL HOUSE JCR, Battle of Culloden by Peter Watkins, Nov. 16, at 8:30, $.50, refreshments and discussion afterwards...