#culloden

#OnThisDay 16 Apr 1746, Culloden became the final chapter of the Jacobite Rising. It was over in under an hour, but the consequences would stretch far beyond the battlefield.

On the moor that day, it wasn’t simply Scotland against England—as often believed—but a brutal reckoning between rival loyalties, with Scots fighting on both sides.

The government line held firm. The Highland charge broke.

What followed wasn’t just defeat—it was erasure: of language, dress, and identity. Culloden didn’t just end a rising. It rewrote a nation.

I hada really nice meet up with my Friend Laura yesterday, first in over a yaer, she bought me this fab T-shirt to wear next week at the 280th annversary Commemoration of The Battle of Culloden which takes place next Saturday `8th April. I anyone here is attensing please come and say hello if you se me.

WARRIOR | n o u n

—JAMES FRASER—

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A golden eagle feasts from the fallen fawn Whose tartan spots have not faded With the cooling of summer’s heat

April sleet penetrates peat Musket ball seedlings Ripened in fleeting sun For August’s heather bloom

Seas of violet and skies a smoky shade Targe of memory, splintered but glinting

Glens soon emptied of song Replaced by the clatter Of the wool shearer’s clippers

Treading the bog, stony cairns Line the path Family names etched, for tourists

Scrapbooking Those who took their last breath here

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