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Battle of Culloden
The
Battle of Culloden
was the final confrontation of the
Jacobite rising of 1745
and part of a religious civil war in Britain. On 16 April 1746, the
Jacobite
forces of
Charles Edward Stuart
fought and were decisively defeated by loyalist troops commanded by
William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
, near
Inverness
in the
Scottish Highlands
.
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