Tour Scotland Video Cumberland Barracks Coupar Angus

Tour Scotland video of Cumberland Barracks on Calton Street in Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland. These barracks were built to be used by the British Army in the suppression of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, which was the last major war and made an end of centuries of clan warfare in the high glens. The Cumberland also known as the Yeomanry Barracks were restored by the Burgh Council in 1974. The Jacobite rising of 1745 was the attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart. The rising occurred during the War of the Austrian Succession when most of the British Army was on the European continent. Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as " Bonnie Prince Charlie " or " the Young Pretender ", sailed to Scotland and raised the Jacobite standard at Glenfinnan in the Scottish Highlands, where he was supported by a gathering of Highland clansmen. The march south began with an initial victory at Prestonpans near Edinburgh. The Jacobite army, now in bold spirits, marched onwards to Carlisle, over the border in England. When it reached Derby, some British divisions were recalled from the Continent and the Jacobite army retreated north to Inverness where the last battle on Scottish soil took place on a nearby moor at Culloden. The Battle of Culloden ended with the final defeat of the Jacobite cause, and with Charles Edward Stuart fleeing with a price on his head, before finally sailing to France.

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