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? PRINCE WILLIAM AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF CUMBERLAND, 3RD SON OF GEORGE II, KING OF GREAT BRITAIN (1721-65)
Order of battle at Culloden, 1746 (Culloden Moor, Highland Region, Scotland, UK) 57°28'00"N 04°05'00"W
c.1746RCIN 730019
This rough draft shows the adjustments made to the placement of government forces in the light of intelligence about the Jacobite troops. Realising that more men were required to the right and nervous about movements undertaken by Lord George Murray, Cumberland moved Pulteney’s Regiment forwards – a last-minute adjustment vividly recorded on this scrap of paper. Crucially, Cumberland chose to intersperse his front line with pairs of three-pounder cannon, which would do terrible damage to the Jacobite lines.
King’s Military Map Collection
Cat. 59
watermark: English coat of arms [Queen Anne?]; countermark: the letters G R inside two entwined leafed branches, the whole within a circle [not in Heawood or Churchill]
annotation: Old heading: Order of Battle at Culloden 16 April 1746. Other annotations: none.
