Numerous histories of the Battle of Culloden reference the Duke of Cumberland's purportedly new bayonet drill which was allegedly introduced in his infantry battalions...
While the Duke of Cumberland’s army was encamped at Aberdeen and Strathbogie in March and early April 1746, Cumberland and Major-General Humphrey Bland, the...
28 April 1719: Two weeks after the arrival of the Spanish-Jacobite expedition in Kintail, 2,000 muskets and broadswords, which were to arm the Jacobite...
24 April 1725: Major-General George Wade, Member of Parliament for Bath, was appointed to take over from Lieutenant-General George Carpenter as commander-in-chief in Scotland....
17 April 1746: Charles Edward Stuart arrived at Invergarry Castle, while the remnants of the Jacobite army defeated at Culloden the previous day began...
