After seeing them safe, he intends to try to save as many of his men as possible, and then die in the battle. On the eve of the battle, Jamie sends Claire back through the stones on Craigh na Dun, in order to save Claire's life as well as that of their unborn child. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart were decisively defeated by loyalist troops commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. The Battle of Culloden (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Chùil Lodair) was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain.
