The Butcher

Lunch at the Culloden Battlefield café this afternoon.


Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland lived from 15 April 1721 to 31 October 1765. A younger son of George II and Queen Caroline, he became a celebrated military leader at a very young age and commanded the Government forces that defeated the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. His the behavious of his troops after the battle and his oversight of the genocide across the Highlands that followed, earned him the title of "Butcher Cumberland": but his defeat of the Jacobites also earned him gratitude in the Lowlands and great acclaim in London.
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