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BBC News reports that more than 100 projectiles were recovered during an investigation of an unstudied area of Scotland's Culloden Battlefield. Fought on April 16, 1746, the Battle of Culloden marked Britain's final defeat of the Jacobite army led by Charles Edward Stuart, who was also known as Bonnie Prince Charlie. Stuart had attempted to place his father, who was the son of the Roman Catholic James II, on the British throne. Yet James II had been deposed in 1688 and his line excluded from English succession under the Act of Settlement of 1701. At the time of the battle,...

HISTORY is set to be re-written after archeologists revealed the Jacobite army were far closer to winning the battle of Culloden than previously thought. The battle, which went down in history as a decisive victory for the notorious Duke of Cumberland, marked the end of the '45 rebellion and left lasting scars on the Scottish psyche. And for centuries it has been believed that the red-coated government soldiers had utterly destroyed the indisciplined, untrained Jacobite forces of Bonnie Prince Charlie. But new excavations of the 1746 battleground which has since become part of Scottish folklore have discovered the Jacobites came...