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Cumberland, William Augustus

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Cumberland, William Augustus (1721–1765)

British general who ended the Jacobite rising in Scotland with the Battle of Culloden in 1746; his brutal repression of the Highlanders earned him the nickname of ‘Butcher’.

Third son of George II, he was created Duke of Cumberland in 1726. He fought in the War of the Austrian Succession at Dettingen in 1743 and Fontenoy in 1745. In the Seven Years' War he surrendered with his army at Kloster-Zeven in 1757. KCB 1725, Duke 1726.



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