15/09/2021
What is this? Where is it? And why is it so significant?
What might our life be now if there had been no Culloden, no hunting down of the Highlanders by Butcher Cumberland, no extermination of the Clan system?
What might we be doing now had this bridge over the River Tummel never been built, if the English canon had not been able to cross the Tummel and reach Inverness, if the Clans had not been so savagely routed at Culloden and Bonnie Prince Charlie had won the day?
As the English army approached over the shoulder of Schiehallion too late the people of Tummel realised they had been duped. With no tools and not enough man power to break down the bridge they had just built, they had to watch, helpless, as the English army, complete with canon and artillery, marched across the final link in General Wade’s plan to quell the Highlanders and headed north for Inverness.
The rest, as they say, is history.
