While the Duke of Cumberland’s army was encamped at Aberdeen and Strathbogie in March and early April 1746, Cumberland and Major-General Humphrey Bland, the...
Numerous histories of the Battle of Culloden reference the Duke of Cumberland's purportedly new bayonet drill which was allegedly introduced in his infantry battalions...
24 April 1725: Major-General George Wade, Member of Parliament for Bath, was appointed to take over from Lieutenant-General George Carpenter as commander-in-chief in Scotland....
17 April 1746: Charles Edward Stuart arrived at Invergarry Castle, while the remnants of the Jacobite army defeated at Culloden the previous day began...
16 April 1746: Charles Edward Stuart’s Jacobite army was decisively defeated by the Duke of Cumberland’s government army at the Battle of Culloden, outside...
