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Trevor Royle: Culloden: Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire [2017] paperback TRANS and spirit' DAVID MITCHELLThe Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the English Royal Army. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English, the battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French invasion. In Trevor Royle's vivid and evocative