Quote Originally Posted by slohairt View Post
The theme I have always taken from the story of Culloden was the folly of a man's ambition and his willingness to drag everyone and everything down with him. Good people were led to believe they were fighting for something for themselves and they paid the ultimate price of his ambition for years to come. Ironically it was the near-destruction of the culture which they were first duped into believing they were defending. Very sad.
Really? And suppose the Jacobites had won. Would you then consider the Duke of Cumberland a mountebank for having duped his troops into fighting to support his father's claim to the throne?