The Jacobite Clans won a decisive battle three miles from Pitlochry in 1689 at Killiecrankie. The small highland clan Jacobite army defeated a force almost twice its size of regular Red Coat Soldiers, some of the very best troops in Europe. Three of the Red Coat regiments were trained in the latest European Battle tactics having been fighting with the Dutch on the continent. Today there is a fight to preserve the heart of our Jacobite Battlefield, as Transport Scotland are determined to drive a

Here’s a brief demonstration of what some Jacobite soldiers would have typically carried in battle. If you are interested in seeing more, there is a full length video available to watch now for subscribers where I go into detail on the different types weapons used by both sides, some of the battle tactics used and some of the other factors that led the Jacobites to a crushing defeat at the battle of Culloden where an estimated 700 Jacobites were killed in the first two to three minutes of the ba