The Quiz: Where was the final battle of the Jacobite rising in 1746?
Culloden, Scotland
Yorktown, Virginia
Leeds, U.K.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Scottish forces, known as the Jacobites, were ultimately defeated by the British at the Battle of Culloden, a village near Inverness in northern Scotland. Culloden is remembered as the climax and final battle of the “Forty-Five Rebellion” and was a turning point in Scottish history after the bonnie prince fled Scotland, relinquishing his claim to the British throne. Today, the preserved battlefield features stone markers for each clan that lost soldiers during the battle.
The correct answer to this quiz is Culloden, Scotland.