Sat 30 June & Sun 1 July, 11am – 5.00pm
It is 1746 and the last Jacobite Rising is coming to its bitter conclusion. The Jacobite forces have been defeated at Culloden, and isolated fragments are trying to reach the rallying point at the recently captured Ruthven Barracks.
Redcoat patrols are spreading across the Highlands to prevent them linking up to restart the Rising. A small band of Jacobites gets as far as the township but finds its way to Ruthven blocked. But even in defeat these men can show themselves to be dangerous for an isolated patrol…
With the Alan Breck’s Prestonpans Volunteer Regiment (Link to their facebook page)
Timetable
11.00 Living history opens
11.30 Return of the Clansmen – survivors of the Battle of Culloden arrive at the township and, tended by the villagers, report the sorry news. Should they continue the fight or lay down their arms? Not all are in agreement.
12.30 Patrol – Redcoats arrive at the township looking to disarm any remaining Jacobites. But in the tense environment hostility soon flares up…
13.00 Ambush in the Woods! – the distracted redcoats find themselves outmanoeuvred in the woods, and the Jacobites rediscover their fighting spirit.
14.00 The Redcoats interrogate a valuable prisoner (British camp)
15.00 Withdrawal! – Acting on the information from their prisoner, the Redcoats decide to break camp and withdraw. But as they file down a narrow road, the Jacobites make a last throw of the dice…
17.00 Living history closes.
Timetable is the same on each day of the event.