It was on a bleak Scottish moor April 16, 1746, that a rag-tag army of Scottish rebels hurled itself one last time against a better armed and better trained English army.
The Battle of Culloden left the flower of the Highland clans slaughtered. As the fierce clanging of Scottish broadswords on English muskets rang for the final time, the echoes of this desperate struggle would be heard as far away as Barbour County in Alabama.
The disastrous Scottish defeat at Culloden led to a wave of political reprisals in Scotland and to an assault on the Scottish way of life itself. The wearing of the kilt and tartan was banned along with the bagpipe.
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