Culloden Battlefield

The visitor centre tells the story of the battle of Culloden - the final defeat of rising of the 1745, fought on 16 April 1746, between on the one hand the jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart, comprising highland catholics, lowland protestants and professional soliders from Ireland, France, England and Scotland and on the other hand, the royalist hanoverian forces, which included regiments from Scotland and Ireland, alongside the majority English, commanded by the Duke of Cumberland.