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Originally part of the Athole Brigade, Culloden was the first time it operated as a stand-alone unit. [15] Chisholms of Strathglass: ~ 80 men [16] Led by Roderick Og of Clan Chisholm, suffered very heavy casualties at Culloden. [15] Duke of Perth's Division: MacDonald of Keppoch's Regiment. 200 men. Commanded by Alexander MacDonald of Keppoch.
The following day, wreaths were laid at the Culloden Memorial Cairn by the Chief and Iain MacGillivray the Commander of Clan MacGillivray, in memory of the two clans' chiefs – the cousins Colonel Alexander MacGillivray of Dunmaglass and Major Gillies 'Mor' MacBean, of Lady Anne Mackintosh's (Clan Chattan) Regiment, their clansmen and all ...
The Battle of Culloden is an important episode in D. K. Broster's The Flight of the Heron (1925), the first volume of her Jacobite Trilogy, which has been made into a TV serial twice: by Scottish Television in 1968, as eight episodes and by the BBC in 1976. Naomi Mitchison's novel The Bull Calves (1947) deals with Culloden and its aftermath. [81]
Clan MacGillivray is a Highland Scottish clan and is a member of the Clan Chattan Confederation. [6] The clan does not currently have a clan chief, but following a petition to the Lord Lyon a family convention was held at Culloden on 15 April 2016.
A romantic depiction of a clansman illustrated by R. R. McIan, from James Logan's The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, 1845. The chiefs of the Clan Farquharson trace their ancestry back to Farquhar, fourth son of Alexander "Ciar" of Rothiemurchus. [4] Alexander Shaw was the fifth chief of the Clan Shaw. [5] His descendants took the name ...
During the Jacobite rising of 1745 four sons of Alexander Kincaid, who was Lord Provost of Edinburgh and the King's Printer, fought a rearguard action after the Battle of Culloden. [2] They were taken prisoner but managed to escape, taking a ship to America, and also settling in Virginia. [2]
At the Battle of Culloden in 1746, the British artillery which fired grapeshot at the advancing Jacobites was Captain Cunningham's Company, although its commander, Archibald Cunningham, had been dead for two months. [10] Alexander Cunningham was a historical writer who was the British envoy to Venice from 1715 to 1720. [2]
The siege of Culloden House took place on the night of 15/16 October 1745 and was part of the Jacobite rising of 1745. 200 men of the Jacobite Clan Fraser of Lovat attempted to capture Duncan Forbes, Lord Culloden who was the Lord President of the Court of Session, the most senior legal officer in Scotland.