Battle of Culloden

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title: Battle of Culloden
text: The Battle of Culloden took place on 16 April 1746, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. A Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, thereby ending the Jacobite rising of 1745. Charles landed in Scotland in July 1745, seeking to restore his father James Francis Edward Stuart to the British throne. He quickly won control of large parts of Scotland, and an invasion of England reached as far south as Der
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description: Part of the Jacobite rising of 1745
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden
date created: 2002-06-18T03:40:54Z
date modified: 2024-09-07T19:26:22Z
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