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After Culloden, the Duke of Cumberland's Stone, ... On 16 April 1746, William Augustus Hanover, the Duke of Cumberland, defeated Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobite army at Culloden.
The residential street in Kirriemuir is named after William, Duke of Cumberland, who is said to have performed ‘atrocities’ during the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
Experts say the new technology gives “the most detailed understanding” possible of how the landscape looked in 1746, ... Duke of Cumberland. ...
BERLIN, Nov. 10.--The North German Gazette publishes the text of a circular issued by the Duke of Cumberland, which has been addressed to all the German sovereigns except the Emperor William.
William Augustus D. of Cumberland son of K. Geo. II 1765. He was born in London on 15th April 1721, the second surviving son of George, Prince of Wales (who became King George II) and his wife ...
The battle on 16 April 1746 saw forces loyal to Bonnie Prince Charlie defeated by the Duke of Cumberland's government army. Fought near Inverness, it involved the deaths of about 1,600 men - 1,500 ...
Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland and Strathern and Earl of Dublin (in the Irish peerage) was buried in the Hanoverian vault below the central aisle of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey on ...
After Culloden, the Duke of Cumberland's Stone, a relic of the last Ice Age, became forever linked to the battle's bogeyman. But is it deserving of the association and the abuse it has taken over ...