💡The Culloden Bayonet Drill: How Cumberland’s army broke the Highland charge
How a minor change to the government army’s bayonet drill defeated the Highlander’s battle tactics— and why the critics who dismissed it were asking the wrong question. The weight of evidence establishes beyond reasonable doubt that Cumberland’s army trained in and used a new bayonet drill at Culloden, and that the drill was directed personally by Cumberland in the Aberdeen training period. None of the documentary evidence describes the precise mechanics of the drill explicitly.