Highland Charge at Drummossie Muir: Battle of Culloden April 16, 1746

Descriere: On a cold drizzly day in April in the year of Our Lord 1746, two armies
faced each other across a bleak moor near the town of Inverness in the
north of Scotland. One of them was made up of what were, in effect, tribal
levies who, ostensibly fighting to restore the Stuart dynasty to the
throne of Britain, were actually making a last stand for their ancient way
of life. The battle lasted for less than an hour and the outnumbered
Highland clansmen were crushed by a storm of grapeshot and musketry fired
by the redcoated government troops. It was the last battle ever fought on
the soil of mainland Britain. The moor was called Drumossie, the clansmen
Jacobities, and their leader Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender.
The Battle was called Culloden.
This full color print of the original painting by James
Neal Madison depicts the final highland charge at Drommossie Muir during
the Battle of Culloden, on April 16, 1746. Madison beautifully evokes the
terrible reality of the struggle for the British throne that left 2,000 of
the rebel clansmen dead at the feet of the government army, that had
outnumbered them by two to one.