Henry Hawley
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Henry Hawley was a British army officer who served in the wars of the first half of the 18th century. He fought in a number of significant battles, including the Capture of Vigo in 1719, Dettingen, Fontenoy and Culloden.
West Green House, built by Hawley in 1720, using profits from the capture of Vigo
Hawley fought in the 1707 Battle of Almanza, an Allied defeat
Falkirk Muir, January 1746
Battle of Culloden
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The Battle of Culloden took place on 16 April 1746, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. A Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, ending the Jacobite rising of 1745.
An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745, by David Morier
Charles Edward Stuart, painted late 1745 (original now lost)
Culloden House, in 1746, where the Jacobite leader Charles Edward Stuart had his headquarters and lodgings in the days leading up to the Battle of Culloden