Prince Charlies Cave
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Prince Charlies Cave, is a cave where Charles Edward Stuart
was said to have sheltered in the for 5 days in 1746, when on the run from the Duke of Cumberland, after the defeat at the Battle of Culloden
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The cave is located on Meilchan, a small green hillock, overlooking Loch nan Uamh in Druimindarroch
in Inverness-shire
, Scotland
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Charles Edward Stuart
Prince Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or The Young Pretender was the second Jacobite pretender to the thrones of Great Britain , and Ireland...
was said to have sheltered in the for 5 days in 1746, when on the run from the Duke of Cumberland, after the defeat at the Battle of Culloden
Battle of Culloden
The Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the 1745 Jacobite Rising. Taking place on 16 April 1746, the battle pitted the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart against an army commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, loyal to the British government...
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The cave is located on Meilchan, a small green hillock, overlooking Loch nan Uamh in Druimindarroch
Druimindarroch
Druimindarroch is a small settlement which lies on the north coast of Loch nan Uamh in Lochaber, Scottish Highlands and is in the council area of Highland....
in Inverness-shire
Inverness-shire
The County of Inverness or Inverness-shire was a general purpose county of Scotland, with the burgh of Inverness as the county town, until 1975, when, under the Local Government Act 1973, the county area was divided between the two-tier Highland region and the unitary Western Isles. The Highland...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
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