Holiday Scotland

A chance to travel Scotland in the footsteps of the Jacobites The Jacobite wars were a lot more than kilted Highlanders rushing through the heather to fight the Redcoats; no, it was a battle for the heart and soul of a nation. There was religious conflict, political intrigue, commercial ambition and old scores settled. So, [...]

On the morning of the 16th of April 1746 two armies, from completely different worlds faced each other across the bleak, rain-battered Culloden Moor. On one side the redcoat regiments of the British government mustered and fell in; on the other a force of kilted Highlanders, armed with little more than their ancestors had faced [...]

Fives miles east of Inverness, the windswept moorland of Culloden, saw the last great battle on British soil on April 16, 1746, a turning point in the history of the Scottish nation, when the Jacobite cause was finally defeated. The second Jacobite rebellion had begun on August 19, 1745, when the standard was raised at [...]