Battle of Culloden

The memorial cairn on Culloden Moor near Inverness, Scotland, the last pitched battle fought on the British mainland. On April 16, 1746, the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart was broken by government troops in less than an hour. The 20-foot cairn went up in 1881, along with headstones marking the traditional graves of the clans, where many of the Jacobite dead lie in mass graves. The open, boggy moor around it is the point: it was poor ground for a Highland charge.