He also named the Duke of Kingston’s Regiment of Light Horse as another perpetrator of terrible atrocities, this time in the aftermath of Culloden.
Professor Pittock said: “They killed – admittedly it’s in the aftermath of the battle where it’s not safe to be around – but cutting down women with children in their arms on the road to Inverness was hardly an act of taking action against combatants.
“[Civilians] were walking down the road and they were just cut down. They killed everybody and everything on that road for the five miles into Inverness.”
He said two of the men in Kingston’s Light Horse Regiment has been butchers in their civilian lives with the trade being a very public and prominent one at the tine.
The moniker “butcher” had all the more resonance during this era where Smithfield Market in London would see cattle publicly slaughtered for consumption.
Professor Pittock concluded: “A butcher is very much a public figure, not a person who does things behind closed doors and then a joint appears.”
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