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Culloden Moor
[ kuh-lod-n, -lawd-n ]
noun
- a moor in NE Scotland, near Inverness: site of the battle that ended the Jacobite Rebellion 1746.
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In a little time they proceeded on their march, and engaged the gallant army of the Prince on Culloden Moor.
Culloden Moor, victory of the Duke of Cumberland at, iii, 55.
The men on Culloden Moor, a flat waste unsuited to the tactics of the clans, had but one biscuit apiece on the eve of the battle.
It was now too late to hope that a surprise could be effected before daylight, and the army retraced its steps to Culloden Moor.
Culloden Moor—the battle-field—lies eastward about a mile from Culloden House.
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