The night before Culloden, Lord George Murray led the Jacobite army on a night march to surprise Cumberland celebrating his birthday at Nairn. The march went wrong — the guides were lost, the men were exhausted from hunger, and dawn was approaching. The attack was abandoned and the army struggled back — arriving at Culloden Moor hungry, exhausted, and demoralised for the battle that followed. The failed night march is considered one of the decisive moments of the '45.
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