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Glenfinnan

100 miles west of Nairn

The Glenfinnan Monument at the head of Loch Shiel was erected in 1815 in tribute to the clansmen who fought and died in the cause of Bonnie Prince Charlie. The Prince’s Standard was raised here on August 19, 1745. In April of the following year, at Culloden, the Prince’s attempt to restore the exiled Stuarts to the throne of and ended in defeat as his clansmen were routed by the Hanoverian army.

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