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 much difficulty in forming two. When the English army was on a line with the inclosure, about or 800 yards from the eminence behind the swamp the Highlanders descended with great rapidity, an changed the enemy sword in hand. The Prince who remained on the eminence, observing the English employed in throwing down the walls of the inclosure to attack the flank, sent peated orders to Lord George Murray, wh was at the head of the first line, and ready to f upon the enemy, to place some troops in the inch sure, and prevent the manœovre of the English which could not fail to prove fatal to the army Lord George paid no attention to this order; an the English having thrown down the walls of th inclosure, entered with 2 regiments, of cavalry, an 4 pieces of artillery, which they fired with grap shot. Their fire, being quite close, was so terrible that it swept away whole ranks at once. At length the flight became general over the whole field.

The right wing of the army fled towards th riqer Nairn, and met in their way a body of English cavalry: but the the English commander allowe them to pass at the distance of a pistol shot. Th left, which fled towards Inverness, was less fortunate. Having been pursued by the cavalry, the road from Culloden to that town was every where strewed with dead bodies. The Duke of Cumberland had the cruelty to allow the wounded to remain amongst the dead, strip of their clothes, from Wednesday to Friday afternoon, when he sent detachments to kill all who were in life. He ordered a barn, which contained many of the wounded Highlanders, to be set on fire; and, having stationed soldiers around it, they with fixed bayonet drove back the unfortunate men who attempted to save themselves, into the flames.