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Old Photograph Cumberland Stone Culloden Battlefied Scotland
Old photograph of the Cumberland Stone on the battlefield at Culloden, near Inverness, Scotland. According to local legend, the Cumberland Stone, by Culloden Moor, marks the spot where on the morning of the battle the Butcher Duke of Cumberland took breakfast. The huge stone served the purpose of his table, and later in the day was used by him as a vantage point to survey the field of battle. On 8 April 1746, Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, set out from Aberdeen for Inverness, and, on 16 April, his army fought the decisive Battle of Culloden, in which the Stuart forces were completely destroyed. Cumberland ordered his troops to show no quarter against any remaining Jacobite rebels. His troops traversed the battlefield and stabbed any of the rebel soldiers who were still alive. When Cumberland learned that a wounded soldier lying at his feet belonged to the opposing cause he instructed a major to shoot him; when the major, James Wolfe, refused to do so, Cumberland commanded a private soldier to complete the required duty.
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