Culloden

kul-lo'den, a battlefield in the Highlands of Scotland, four miles east of Inverness. Here, April 27, 1746, Charles the Pretender and his Highland adherents made the last stand of the Stuarts. They were scattered to the four winds by the English Duke of Cumberland. Charles lay in hiding for weeks until he had opportunity to escape to France. He made no further attempt to secure the British crown. For the Highlanders the day was one of disaster. Hundreds of their fighting men lay slain on the heath, and the coronach or wail for the dead was heard in every glen and mountain fastness. A monumental cairn marks the spot where the thick of the battle fell. See Scotland; Stuarts