it's appropriate to remember 16th April 1746, and in my view commendable to so, the actual battle fought on Drumossie Moor, Culloden is said to have lasted no more than 1 hour, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Highland army of a poorly led Jacobites, tired and weary fought bravely for a just and rightfull cause despite the fact that they where outnumbered 3 to 1 by the Government troops under Cumberlands command.
But you must also remember the bloody slaughter that continued after the battle for days, weeks, and many months, when the Butchers men roamed the highland slaughtering without mercy anyone suspected of being a jacobite sympathizer.
So remember April 16th 1746 not just for the battle, or for the slaughter, rape and pillage that followed, but as the beginning of the end of a way of life in the Highlands of Scotland that would be lost forever.