In the days after Culloden, scattered Jacobite survivors made their way to Ruthven Barracks in Badenoch — the agreed rendezvous. Some 1,500 men gathered there over several days, including Lord George Murray. They still had an army capable of continuing guerrilla warfare. But the message came from Prince Charles: each man should seek his own safety. The message was heartbreaking. Men who had staked everything on the rising dissolved in tears and dispersed. Lord George Murray wrote a furious letter to Charles, blaming him for the disaster. The gathering and dispersal at Ruthven marked the last organised Jacobite moment of the '45.
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