| Culloden is the moor where Bonnie Prince Charlie and the highlanders who had rallied to his cause fought to regain the British crown for the Stewarts in 1746, but were utterly defeated by the English. The defeat began a bleak period in Scottish history known as the Highland Clearances, where the highland people were stripped of their lands to make way for more profitable sheep farming by their English overseers. Thousands of highland Scots immigrated to the U.S., Canada, and Australia during this period. |
