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Culloden (; Scottish Gaelic Cùil Lodair ) may refer to any of the following:

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Troubridge's ship HMS Culloden was also some distance from the main body, towing a captured merchant ship.
Despite strenuous efforts from the Culloden < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s boats, the brig Mutine and the 50-gun HMS Leander under Captain Thomas Thompson, the ship of the line could not be moved, and the waves drove Culloden further onto the shoal, inflicting severe damage to the ship's hull.
Warned away from the Aboukir shoals by the grounded Culloden, Captain Benjamin Hallowell in Swiftsure passed the melee at the head of the line and aimed his ship at the French centre.
* Scottish vocal duo, The Corries popularised the folk song, " The Skye Boat Song ", which told of The Bonnie Prince's escape from the Scottish Highlands after the Battle of Culloden.
At about 2: 00 p. m., Culloden had stretched so far ahead as to cover the Captain from the heavy fire poured into her by the Spanish four-decker and her companions, as they hauled up and brought their broadsides to bear.
It has occasionally been said that these cannon were captured from the Scots at Culloden and given to the town by the Duke of Cumberland, but they are much larger than those used in that campaign.
The railroad wanted to bring the track from Culloden to Knoxville, which was the most direct and economical route, but Crawford County rebelled.
On 8 April 1746, he set out from Aberdeen for Inverness, and, on 16 April, he fought the decisive Battle of Culloden, in which the forces of the Young Pretender were completely destroyed.
Munro had sent many of his own men south to protect the lands of the Clan Forbes of Culloden from the Jacobites.
Apart from the former burgh of Inverness, the Highland Council's city management area includes Ardersier, Beauly, Culloden, Balloch, Drumnadrochit, Fort Augustus, Invermoriston, Smithton, Tomatin, Kirkhill and Kiltarlity.
Lovat's false professions of fidelity did not long deceive the government, and after the Battle of Culloden he was obliged to retreat to the Highlands, after seeing from a distant height his castle of Dounie burnt by the royal army.
After the defeat at the Battle of Culloden, the Prince spent some time hiding from the British troops on Raasay and as a consequence of the island's support for the Jacobite cause the original Raasay House and many dwellings were burnt down by government troops.
Hindman's paternal lineage descended from the Carmichael clan in Scotland, some members of which made their way into America after King George II of Great Britain ousted nine hundred Scottish followers of Bonnie Prince Charles to America after the April 16, 1746 Battle of Culloden.
" In it he refers to a story from his nursemaid Mary McIntyre of Balquhither parish, wherein she and her mother had baked bannock for the army of Charles Edward Stuart, marching to Culloden.
The castle is surrounded by beautiful Elizabethan terraced gardens, including Elizabeth I's bowling green and a pine that is reputed to have been grown from a cutting taken from a tree at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
The column in the centre of the square dates from 1747 and was built to carry the statue of the Duke of Cumberland, known as the Bloody Duke and the victor of the Battle of Culloden.
In the 1880s the common people or peasantry of the Highlands and Islands had been cleared from large areas of their ancestral lands, the clearances ( known as the Highland Clearances ) having occurred during the decades following the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
On 3 January 1746, the retreating Jacobite army of Charles Stuart made its way through Kirkintilloch, on its way back from Derby, and on the march to Falkirk and ultimately Culloden.
Cannon retrieved from the Culloden on display at the Marine Museum
Writing for Eye for Film, Amber Wilkinson praised Culloden, commenting that " the mastery of direction is obvious from first to last ".
* Notes on ' Culloden ' from Peter Watkin's website
After 36 following the Battle of Culloden the Act of Proscription passed by Parliament which “ proscribed or banned the making or wearing of Tartan cloths " was repealed, and from 1783 tartans were worn again.

Culloden and Scottish
His hopes to gain the Scottish and English thrones died at the Battle of Culloden in 1746
The Duke had defeated the Scottish Highlanders in 1746 at the Battle of Culloden, an especially brutal conflict.
This work, with libretto by Thomas Morell, had been written for the celebrations following the Duke of Cumberland's victory over the Scottish Jacobite rebels at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
After Culloden he presided at the trial of the Scottish Jacobite peers, his conduct of which, though judicially impartial, was neither dignified nor generous ; and he must be held partly responsible for the severity meted out to the rebels, and especially for the executions on obsolete attainders of Charles Radclyffe and ( in 1753 ) of Archibald Cameron of Locheil.
In 1745 he published an able treatise on the law of forfeiture for high treason, in defence of the severe sentences his father had given to the Scottish Jacobite peers following the Battle of Culloden.
It portrays the 1746 Battle of Culloden that resulted in the British Army's destruction of the Jacobite uprising and, in the words of the narrator, " tore apart forever the clan system of the Scottish Highlands ".
Until 1766 France and the Papacy remained committed to restoring the Stuarts to their British Kingdoms, and Irish soldiers in the French service fought on the Jacobite side in the Scottish Jacobite uprisings up to the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
Charles now took charge again, insisting on fighting an orthodox defensive action, and on 16 April 1746 they were finally defeated near Inverness at the Battle of Culloden by government forces made up of English and Scottish troops and Campbell militia, under the command of the Duke of Cumberland.
From the early 17th century, until the Battle of Culloden in 1746, the Scottish Highlander's main means of defence in battle was his targe.
* 1746-Battle of Culloden, The British Army, made from Scottish and English soldiers and led by the Duke of Cumberland, fights the last major battle on British mainland soil against French supported Scottish rebel Jacobites.
Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden ( 10 Nov 1685 – 10 Dec 1747 ) was a Scottish politician and judge.
He usually introduces himself to other Immortals as " Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod " and fought for Scottish independence whenever he could, including the Battle of Culloden in 1746 (" Take Back the Night "), eventually trying to steal the Stone of Scone in 1950 (" The Stone of Scone ").
This was destroyed by government troops after the Battle of Culloden, but " New Achnacarry " was built near the same site in Scottish Baronial style in 1802.

Culloden and back
The Prince and his Army marched through Chorley itself on 10 December on the way back to Carlisle and Scotland and their dreadful day of destiny on Culloden Moor near Inverness the following 16 April.

Culloden and small
He would win only one battle in his career with a very small army, Culloden, and he is described by historian Armstrong Starkey as " a very good brigadier "
In 1735 Forbes succeeded to the family estates on the death of his brother, and undertook agricultural improvements at Bunchrew, a small property near Culloden.

Culloden and modern
Described in its opening credits as " an account of one of the most mishandled and brutal battles ever fought in Britain ", Culloden was hailed as a breakthrough for its cinematography as well as its use of non-professional actors and its presentation of an historical event in the style of modern TV war reporting.
The television adaptation of Compton Mackenzie's novel Monarch of the Glen, centered around a modern day Clan MacDonald, has numerous references to the Battle of Culloden, at which they supposedly fought, including relics of the battle and clan disputes remaining fresh to this day.
Instead, during the years preceding the Battle of Culloden, to the extent that the Highland people wore any kind of kilt-like garment, it was the belted plaid and not the modern tailored kilt.

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