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Culloden : Scotland's last battle and the forging of the British Empire / Trevor Royle.

by Royle, Trevor

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Abacus, 2017, c2016.

Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746.

Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746.

Scotland -- History -- 18th century.

Great Britain -- History -- 1714-1837.

9780349138657 (pbk.)

0349138656 (pbk.)

xiii, 409 p., [ 8] p. of plates : ill., portraits ; 20 cm.

Originally published in London by Little, Brown, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In Trevor Royle's vivid and evocative narrative, we are drawn into the ranks, on both sides, alongside doomed Jacobites fighting fellow Scots dressed in the red coats of the Duke of Cumberland's Royal Army. And we meet the Duke himself, a skilled warrior who would gain notoriety because of the reprisals on Highland clans in the battle's aftermath. Royle also takes us beyond the battle as the men of the Royal Army, galvanized by its success at Culloden, expand dramatically and start to fight campaigns overseas in America and India in order to secure British interests. We see the revolutionary use of fighting techniques first implemented at Culloden, and we see the creation of professional fighting forces Culloden changed the course of British history by ending all hope of the Stuarts reclaiming the throne, cementing Hanoverian rule and forming the bedrock for the creation of the British Empire.

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