Ghosts of My Ancestors

<p>Looking back through the window of our tour bus at the moor where thousands had fought a better equipped military left me with a very eerie feeling. This battle had killed over 2000 Jacobites that day with another 500 or more killed in pursuit. Later I found out that 700 of those taken prisoner had been executed or died in prisons with almost another 800 more loaded onto prison ships and transported to the colonies. </p><p>These actions must have been a major horror and terror these brave Scottish Jacobites felt that day as they lay wounded and dying to the fading sounds of the bagpipes while gasping their last breaths.</p>