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Originally Posted by Expat Canuck
The Scottish where bound to lose that one, no clue why any idiot would pick that location as a battle site. When you go there and look the first thing you do is go man no wonder we lost.
Culloden is why I'm Canadian.
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Remember that roughly half of the "English" army was made up of lowland Scots.
Lowlanders regarded the Highlanders as primitive barbarians. Lowlanders spoke "Scots" (a derivative of "English"), the Highlanders Gaelic. Lowlanders were largely Calvinist against the Catholic Highlanders.
The idiot you mention is Bonnie Prince Charlie although the battleground was partly accidental. Charlies other brilliant strategy was to allow the Highlanders to weather a half hour barrage from artillery, while the Loyalist troops formed their lines... had they charged in unison earlier it might have changed the course of the battle if not of history.
As Billy Connolly calls him "that stupid wee, effeminate, Italian dwarf"... Bonnie Prince indeed..
I'd like to see a proper film of Robert the Bruce (rather than Mel Gibson's crap protrayal of him in Braveheart).