Well I just spent most of my summer in Scotland! I haven't been over in over 10 years.. So It was fantastic to see so many cousins, aunts and uncles etc.. Most of my family lives in and around Inverness. Since my last visit though I have gotten quite interested in Scottish culture and history. And with the massive win for SNP this is indeed an amazing time in Scottish history! The amount of pride and nationalism people seem to share is just so infectious! One cant help to get caught up in it.. Whilst there however I made my first visit to Culloden. It was a moving experience. The museum is very nicely put together. The artifacts are just so amazing to look at.. I honestly could've spent a day in the museum alone.. But the battle feild its self is so humbling! The landscape and terrain was very solbering.. The challenges those poor Jacobites faced makes one realize how little options that must of had! the whole battle must have been like a moral suicide. What I really find interesting though is how reveered Prince Charlie is to the Scots.. Even today? The more I read and learn about the 45 rising the more he seems like a narcissistic royal twit!!!! I mean... Here's a very young man who beat the brits out of scotland with rag tag army. But agaisnt all advice from well respected military advisors to in fact strengthen his army in Scotland, he still advanced full tilt into England! And so began the end of the 45 rising! Ending of course in Culloden. Then quickly leading to quit simply the ethnic cleansing of the highlands.. Every moment of his front seems to punctuated by disastrous arrogance which ended with such far reaching effects! So... I`m I wrong in my view? Why is Prince Charlie still so reveered among the Scots? And why are his shortcomings disregarded among so many?