Sir Robert Rich, 5th Baronet
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Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Rich, 5th Baronet was a British Army general and Governor of Londonderry and Culmore.
Portrait by Arthur Devis, 1756
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 command
Sir Robert Rich, 5th Baronet
…Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Rich, 5th Baronet (1717 – 19 May 1785) was a British Army general and Governor of Londonderry and Culmore. He fought at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 as colonel of the 4th King's Own (Barrell's) Regiment, where he lost his left hand to a sword cut and nearly lost the right forearm to another…
An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745, David Morier
Charles Edward Stuart, painted late 1745. (Original displayed at Scottish National Portrait Gallery)
Culloden House, circa 1746, Charles' headquarters prior to the battle
Well of the Dead; modern remains of the park wall on the Jacobite right