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[[File:5346336 198ca26a.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|Figure 1. The site of the Battle of Culloden.]]
The Battle of Culloden occurred on April 16, 1746 and was the last pitched battle in Britain. Effectively, it defeated and put an end to a series of Jacobite uprisings that had been ongoing since the 1688 following the Glorious Revolution, which put an end to the male-line succession of the House of Stuart on the British throne. The Jacobites were a group who wanted to restore the Stuart line, . The Jacobites were predominately Scots who had become Catholic, and many of the supporters were Scots, particularly Catholics from the highland regions of Scotland.
