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John Sadler has had a lifelong interest in Scottish military history. He now combines writing with lecturing in History at Newcastle University and working as a battlefield tour guide, living history interpreter, and heritage consultant. He is a keen re-enactor and a long time member of the Sealed Knot Society. His other books include Scottish Battles, Clan Donald's Greatest Defeat: The Battle of Harlaw 1411 and Border Fury: The Three Hundred Years War 1296-1503. He is currently writing a new history of the massacre of Glencoe, forthcoming from Tempus. He lives in mid-Northumberland."'Drawing extensively on first-hand accounts, paints a vivid picture of the campaign and battle... with uniquely intimate touches of human colour.' Scotland in Trust: The Magazine of the National Trust for Scotland."
A book about a battle, about the events that took place amidst the showers of sleet on that grim day Wednesday 16 April 1746, the last pitched battle to be fought on British soil, as 5,400 men of the Scottish Highland army fought 8,000 British army regulars. Not only did it mark the final ruin of the Jacobite cause that had erupted sporadically since the ousting of James II of England and VII of Scotland in 1689, it also witnessed the bitter death knell of the Highland clans.
A gripping account of the last pitched battle to be fought on British soil.