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Map of the Month: John Finlayson’s ‘A Plan of the battle of Culloden’

1st November 20163rd November 2016 Craig Statham

John Finlayson’s plan of the Battle of Culloden November’s Map of the Month is a plan of the Culloden battlefield, probably created in 1746 by John Finlayson. Finlayson was a Jacobite sympathiser who fought in Charles Edward Stewart’s army, and this means that we need to view his map with a sceptical eye as he […]

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