Battle of Culloden

An incident in the rebellion of 1745, by David Morier

Date	16 April 1746
Location	Culloden, east of Inverness grid reference NH742450 Coordinates: 57°28′42″N 4°5′51″W / 57.47833°N 4.09750°W / 57.47833; -4.09750
Result	Decisive Government victory End of Jacobite rising

Belligerents

Commanders and leaders

Strength

8,000
10 guns
6 mortars

7,000
12 guns

Casualties and losses

240-400 killed
1000 wounded

Jacobites:
1,500–2,000 killed or wounded
154 captured
France:
222 captured

The Battle of Culloden (/kʌlˈɒdən/) (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Chùil Lodair) was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart were decisively defeated by loyalist troops commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.

Queen Anne died in 1714, with no living children; she was the last monarch of the House of Stuart. Under the terms of the Act of Settlement 1701, she was succeeded by her second cousin George I of the House of Hanover, who was a descendant of the Stuarts through his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth, a daughter of James VI and I. The Hanoverian victory at Culloden halted the Jacobite intent to overthrow the House of Hanover and restore the House of Stuart to the British throne; Charles Stuart never again tried to challenge Hanoverian power in Great Britain. The conflict was the last pitched battle fought on British soil.