This close-quarters clash on a windswept moor would challenge the Scottish clan tradition and direct the course of British rule. On a frigid, rainy day in mid-April, on a windswept, boggy moor five miles east of Inverness, Scotland, some 5,000 exhausted soldiers waited. Their kilted front-liners wielded broadswords and dirks along with their muskets; 250 …
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