One of the places that I was really happy to visit in Scotland and found very interesting was Culloden Battlefield...
The Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the 1745 Jacobite Rising. On 16 April, 1746, the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) fought loyalist troops commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. The loyalist victory at Culloden decisively halted the Jacobite intent to overthrow the House of Hanover and restore the House of Stuart to the British throne.
Between 1,500 and 2,000 Jacobites were killed or wounded in the brief battle, while government losses were a mere 50 dead and 259 wounded.
The aftermath of the battle and subsequent crackdown on Jacobitism was brutal, earning Cumberland the nickname of "Butcher." Efforts were subsequently taken to further integrate the comparatively wild Highlands into the Kingdom of Great Britain; civil penalties were introduced to weaken Gaelic culture and attack the Scottish clan system.
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