After Culloden, Cumberland's army conducted a systematic pacification of the Highlands that earned him the name "Butcher Cumberland." Government columns marched through the glens burning houses, seizing cattle, killing men found in arms and interning suspects. There were numerous minor skirmishes as Jacobite survivors defended themselves. The pacification combined with the subsequent Heritable Jurisdictions Act, Disarming Act and suppression of Highland dress destroyed the traditional clan system. Cumberland's methods shocked even some government supporters. In Scotland he is remembered as the Butcher; in England he was briefly celebrated as a hero.
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