Sam Heughan's character Jamie in Outlander.Old Leanach cottage still stands sentinel on the battlefield where, in 1745, the Jacobite dream of restoring the Stuarts to the throne ended as the Jacobite army was decisively routed by a British government force.During the battle itself, it reportedly sat on the side of the government lines and may even have served as a field building for the wounded.Most importantly, many cite it as the building (or at least one of its now lost out buildings) that was mentioned by Eric Linklater in his book The Prince in the Heather.Telling the story of how Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, fled the country after the disastrous defeat at Culloden, it references how around 20 wounded Jacobites came to.
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