Inverness
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Inverness is a city in the Scottish Highlands, having been granted city status in 2000. It is the administrative centre for The Highland Council and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands.
Image: 2009 07 16 Inverness, Scotland
Image: Inverness Castle geograph.org.uk 4557736
Image: Inverness Public Library geograph.org.uk 3421847
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