Qualla: Culloden https://qualla.com/culloden en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Culloden https://qualla.com/culloden Culloden: Introduction https://qualla.com/culloden/ In Gaelic, Culloden is Cuil Lodair -- "back of the small pond" -- but the battle's victors ensured that almost nobody would need to know that. This quiet village four miles east of Inverness sits at the edge of a moor where, on 16 April 1746, the last pitched battle fought on British soil ended the Stuart claim to the throne in under an hour. The name Culloden carries a weight that its modest size cannot explain: a weight of clan loyalty, miscalculation, slaughter, and the forced extinction of a way of life that had endured for centuries.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/p/culloden-wk/gfjp-culloden-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Culloden: The Road to Drumossie Moor https://qualla.com/culloden/ The Jacobite cause -- the movement to restore the Catholic Stuart monarchy -- had simmered for decades before Prince Charles Edward Stuart landed in Scotland in 1745. "Bonnie Prince Charlie" rallied the Highland clans and marched south with a French-backed force, reaching as far ...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/p/culloden-wk/gfjp-culloden-the-road-to-drumossie-moor.mp3 0:06 2 full Culloden: An Hour That Ended an Era https://qualla.com/culloden/ The encounter began at one o'clock on a cold, rain-swept afternoon. A short artillery exchange preceded the Jacobite charge across the boggy moor -- terrain that favoured the government's disciplined volleys over the traditional Highland rush. Less than an hour later, the Jacobit...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/p/culloden-wk/gfjp-culloden-an-hour-that-ended-an-era.mp3 0:06 3 full Culloden: What Was Lost https://qualla.com/culloden/ Culloden did not merely defeat an army. The government reprisals that followed targeted the entire Highland way of life. The wearing of tartan was banned. The carrying of weapons was forbidden. The clan chiefs lost their hereditary jurisdictions. The Gaelic language, already unde...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/p/culloden-wk/gfjp-culloden-what-was-lost.mp3 0:06 4 full Culloden: Walking the Moor Today https://qualla.com/culloden/ The battlefield, managed by the National Trust for Scotland, is eerily quiet. Clan grave markers dot the moor -- simple stones bearing names like Fraser, Mackintosh, Stewart, Cameron -- each marking the rough location where the dead of that clan fell and were buried. The "Well of...

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