Just a 15 minute drive outside Inverness is the site of the famous Battle of Culloden. According to Wikipedea: The Battle of Culloden (/kəˈlɒdən/;[3]Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Chùil Lodair) was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force under Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, on Drummossie Moor near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.
Despite this dry description, walking the battlefield was very moving and somber. On the day of the battle over 1,500 Jacobites died within an hour of the start of the fight. Walking the moor you see mounds with stone markers of clan names. These are the areas where the bodies of the dead clan members lay. You can also see the marshy areas where the Jacobites had to fight through in order to attack the British.
As you leave the field, the museum has a remarkable wall. Each stone that protrudes from the wall represents one of the 1,500 Jacobites who died. The carnage that wars produce have not changed over the centuries.
