I was led to believe the Government army saw off the Jacobite attacks and had them on the run all in well less than an hour.

John Prebble, in his definitive work, “Culloden”, opined that what the Government troops saw arrayed in front of them that morning was the last feudal army in Britain. He also suggested that the average Redcoat looking toward the Jacobite lines must have harboured a similar level of feelings of kinship and empathy to those of a 19th Century British redcoat facing a Zulu impi.