After Falkirk Muir, the Jacobite army had won the battle but gained nothing from it. The siege of Stirling Castle under the incompetent French engineer Mirabelle de Gordon had failed. Lord George Murray and the chiefs wrote a memorandum to Prince Charles recommending retreat to the Highlands to regroup. Charles was devastated. The army marched north from Stirling in February 1746, blowing up the siege artillery. This retreat north to Inverness set the stage for the final campaign and Culloden.
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