...from both wings, and then followed a general carnage. The moor was covered with blood, and our men, what with killing the enemy, dabbling their feet in...it about one another, looked like so many butchers ! " It is remarkable that the troops who seemed to take the greatest pleasure in butchering the flying...

...an article penned by a Hanoverian officer. He stated, 'The moor was covered in blood, and our men, what with killing the enemy, dabbling their feet in...about one another, looked like so many butchers.' From Culloden onwards, Cumberland gained the epithet The Butcher, or as the Highlanders would say,...