Article: War! What is it good for; Apparently not for marketing the sites of Wales' biggest and most important battles, says Ian Parri.(Features)

Byline: Ian Parri

THE sheep munching contentedly on the windswept scrub are serenely oblivious to the fact that they're wandering around what to many remains hallowed ground. At the very least it's the blood soaked battleground where a nation's future was forged.

This is Culloden Moor, near Inverness. It was here on April 16, 1746 that Prince Charles Edward Stuart's Jacobite army was crushed by English forces led by the Duke of Cumberland in the last major battle fought in mainland Britain.

The fighting was over and done within one brief but vicious hour, but it remains a seminal point in history for most Scots. Owned by the National Trust for ...

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