Culloden

/ kəˈlɒdən /

noun

1. a moor near Inverness in N Scotland: site of a battle in 1746 in which government troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobites under Prince Charles Edward Stuart

Example Sentences

Queen Elizabeth wore this purple hat in June 2009 to visit the Culloden Battlefield in Scotland.

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I was immediately joined and most nobly supported by the Culloden, Captain Troubridge.

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In a little time they proceeded on their march, and engaged the gallant army of the Prince on Culloden Moor.

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After reconnoitring their situation, we found them posted behind some old walls and huts, in a line with Culloden House.

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The course of the Culloden brought her directly on board one of the enemy's three-deckers.

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He now attacked the four-decker, the Santissima Trinidada, also engaged by the Culloden.

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