Don't know if any Mudcatters ever saw the marvellous Peter Watkins' documentary reconstruction of the battle of Culloden transmitted on BBC in 1964 and repeated a few years ago. Charlie's big mistake was allowing the British army under Cumberland to fire on the Scots for nearly 30 minutes without taking any action and also fail to protect the flanks of his army which allowed it to be attacked by the cavalry. Charlie far from being "my darling" was a fool and never knew when to take advice from his commanders. Interesting to note that when Cumberland met a "real" army as he did later in the War of the Austrian Succession he was defeated on at least two occasions. M