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Sergeant Stubby (1916 – March 16, 1926) was a dog, the unofficial mascot of the 102nd Infantry Regiment and was assigned to the 26th (Yankee) Division in World War I and travelled with his division to France to fight alongside the French.
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]
After Culloden, Rebel Hunting is an 1884 history painting by the British artist John Seymour Lucas depicting a scene from the Jacobite Rising of 1745. [1] In the wake of the Jacobite defeat the Battle of Culloden in the Scottish Highlands on 16 April 1746, the rebels were pursued.
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 249-year-old musket balls were discovered by archeologists doing "compliance activities" in preparation for an event, the National Park Service said in a news release Tuesday.
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.
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.
Police have released the mug shot for Georgia school shooting suspect Colt Gray — as his aunt said the 14-year-old was “begging for help” prior to the shooting. The mug shot shows baby-face ...