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On the morning of April 27 1746 the Duke of Cumberland calmly moved his army of 8,000 men into position before a colourful Scottish array of 7,000 highlanders, including about 150 Irishmen then serving in the Irish Brigade in France. The place was Culloden, south east of Inverness.

BONNIE PRINCE Charlie was the leader of the oft-romanticised, but in truth deeply tragic Jacobite Rising in Scotland in 1745-6.