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As time went by, many plans were made to further reduce the power of
the Clans. Many Chieftains accepted government money as an ' incentive
' to clear their land of these poor souls and to replace them with money
making sheep and cattle. This was what we now know as the Highland
Clearances. What was our shame proved to be a benefit to the countries
who accepted those who survived the journeys.
Culloden village
is a growing community of mostly newly built houses thanks to the growing
prosperity of Inverness which is only a short journey away. The battlefield,
just outside the village to the east, has a Visitor Centre with
some interesting displays such as a model soldier scenario and a Cine-
Docu on the battle. The graves of the fallen Clansmen, or at least some
of the known ones, are identified by the headstones which are positioned
where the bodies were found.
To stand on the
field where it all happened, surveying the ground, feeling the wind
sweep across the moor into your face, brings home to you the strength
of the bond these Clansmen must have had, one for another, whilst they
stood and waited impatiently on that selfsame patch of ground, with
practically no clothing or footwear, ready to make that ' one more decisive
charge '.
As someone else,
somewhere else put it ' It's all gone, gone with the wind '.
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