Culloden

LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU
Wed May 28 17:08:11 CDT 1997


cfa asks:
"> This also set up the disastrous attempts by the "King over the Water" to
> retake the throne in "the 15" and "the 45" alluded to by Dixon several
> times.
Was the first of these resolved @Culloden(sp?)?"


The latter.  The battle of Culloden actually occured in 1746 and marked the
end of serious Jacobite attempts to retake the kingdom.

One might recall that the founding father of Faulkner's Compsons was a
refugee from Culloden.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)



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