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Drummossie Moor – Jack Cameron, The Irish Brigade and the battle of Culloden is a historical novel by Ian Colquhoun (Arima/Swirl 2008) that tells the story of the battle and the preceding days from the point of view of the Franco-Irish regulars, or 'Piquets', who covered the Jacobite retreat. [85]
Culloden (known as The Battle of Culloden in the U.S.) is a 1964 docudrama written and directed by Peter Watkins for BBC TV.It depicts the 1746 Battle of Culloden, the final engagement of the Jacobite rising of 1745 which saw the Jacobite Army be decisively defeated by government troops and in the words of the narrator "tore apart forever the clan system of the Scottish Highlands."
The 2001 film The Hidden Fortress (La Forteresse suspendue), featuring a similar plot about rival groups of children playing war games during their summer vacation, included some characters from The Dog Who Stopped the War as parents of the new children. [4] An animated remake, Snowtime! (La Guerre des tuques 3D), was released in 2015. [5]
A veteran of World War I, British Sergeant Jim Masters has to shepherd his rookie, over-confident platoon during the Second World War. Reprinted in Battle 13 October 1984 to 21 September 1985. [1] The first batch of stories were collected by Rebellion Developments in 2022. [18]
The Royal Artillery vastly outperformed their Jacobite counterparts during the Battle of Culloden. However, until this point in the campaign, the government artillery had performed dismally. The main weapon of the artillery was the 3-pounder. This weapon had a range of 500 yards (460 m) and fired two kinds of shot: round iron and canister.
Stubby has been called the most decorated war dog of the Great War and the only dog to be nominated and promoted to sergeant through combat. Stubby's remains are in the National Museum of American History. [3] [4] [6] Stubby is the subject of the 2018 animated film Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero.
The monument is among several replicas of the one installed at the War Dog Cemetery on Naval Base Guam for the 50th anniversary of the island’s liberation.
Chasing the Deer (later re-titled Culloden 1746) is a 1994 British war film directed by Graham Holloway and starring Brian Blessed, Lewis Rae, Iain Cuthbertson, Fish and Mathew Zajac. It depicts the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion , in which Bonnie Prince Charlie landed in Scotland , trying to claim the British throne.