John Prebble - The Highland Clearances

Following the events of Culloden where a completely legitimate king and his family were denied the right to govern and their supporters ferociously butchered akin to the kind of brutality found in the Nazi Party, there was a ban on cultural dress and other things like banning of playing highland pipes. After Culloden the people were abandoned by their chiefs and were cleared from their land for farming. The people of the highlands of Scotland were in fact indigenous to North-western Europe; this was the start of a ferocious colonial power of the British Empire to exploit diverse peoples throughout the world. It was also detrimental to the British Empire, because the highlands boasted many positions and volunteers within the British Army, but were let down by the greed of their clan chiefs.