Further to this post, it’s not a fair fight. Commenter Ben G asks:
This is a common misperception. Unlike Flodden, Culloden was not a fight between England and Scotland. As many, and perhaps more, Scots fought against the Young Pretender on Drumossie Moor as fought for him. The ’45 was as much a Highland vs Lowland conflict as a Scotland vs England affair.But isn’t Culloden more significant? The effective end of a Scottish claim to the throne. Remember, after that you became ‘North Britain’.
Which is one reason why, from a Unionist perspective, Culloden is less important than Bannockburn. The latter prevented Scotland from becoming a northern Wales and so, in turn, permitted a Union in place of an annexation.
The doomed tragedy of the Jacobite enterprise accounts for its romance and its enduring appeal but it was a rotten enterprise to begin with and had it succeeded it would have produced a rotten outcome too.
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