Cumberland Barracks With Bagpipes Music On History Visit To Coupar Angus Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish bagpipes music, of Cumberland Barracks on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Named after the Duke of Cumberland who led the government forces against the supporters of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, is a significant building in the town. A reminder of more troubled Limes, it was built in the seventeenth or eighteenth century. Coupar Angus stood al the south end of two roads constructed in the eighteenth century for rapid movement of forces and efficient supplying of remote garrisons. The principal route led via Blairgowrie and Braemar to Fort George on the Moray Firth; Coupar was probably for many men their last stay in the Lowlands. These barracks were built to be used by the British Army in the suppression of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, which was the last of war and made an end of centuries of clan warfare in the high glens. Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, born 15 April 1721, was the third and youngest son of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland and his wife, Caroline of Ansbach. He was Duke of Cumberland from 1726. He is best remembered for his role in putting down the Jacobite Rising at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, which made him immensely popular throughout parts of Britain. He is often referred to by the nickname given to him by his Tory opponents: Butcher' Cumberland. Cumberland was obese and in August 1760, he suffered a stroke[ and, on 31 October 1765, he died at his home on Upper Grosvenor Street in London, England, at age 44. He was buried beneath the floor of the nave of the Henry VII Lady Chapel in Westminster Abbey. He died unmarried. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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