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Culloden Moor

(kəlŏd`ən, –lō`dən), moorland, Highland, NE Scotland. There, on Apr. 16, 1746, English forces under the duke of Cumberland defeated the Highlanders under Prince Charles Edward Stuart, thus ending the Jacobite uprising of 1745 (see JacobitesJacobites
, adherents of the exiled branch of the house of Stuart who sought to restore James II and his descendants to the English and Scottish thrones after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. They take their name from the Latin form (Jacobus) of the name James.
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They made up a section of the front line on Culloden moor on April 16, 1746 under the Duke of Perth and were heavily outnumbered out-gunned and defeated.
How the Celtic McClean clan came to spend 233 years in a seaside cottage; The Scots who came to Whitby A family by the name of McLean arrived in Sandsend following the Jacobite uprising in the 18th century, and descendants still live in the area. A number of documents written by Max McLean in the late 1980s have come into our possession and they make interesting reading. We will continue their story in our next two issues
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Two days later, this force began its retreat to Scotland and on April 16th, 1746, it was crushed by the Duke of Cumberland on Culloden Moor.
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