Comments by "Black Cat Dungeon Master\x27s Familiar" (@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311) on "The Highland Charge - The Famous Shock Tactic of the Scottish Clans" video.

These wars weren't really English vs. Scottish at all, at the time of the Jacobites, about half of Scotland supported the Hanoverians and a lot of people in England supported the Jacobites. Scots fought on both sides in all of these battles he mentioned.
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The weapons and tactics used - the Highlanders would jog up to pistol range, discharge a volley, drop their pistols and then charge forward with claymore and targes.
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It did adapt, the video talks about this.
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Lord George Murray advised against fighting there at all, he was overridden by Charles Stuart who didn't really have a clue about anything military.
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@DeepCFisher Not really because the Highlanders were fighting for their own king, their own country by then. Calling him an English king is misleading, it makes them sound like mercenaries.
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@alexanderchenf1 That's a misunderstanding, the Lowland Scots had and have their own culture separate from both Gaels and the English. But even then, your characterisation is wrong. Many of the Highlanders fought for the Hanoverian side including most of Clan Campbell, one of the largest factions in the Highlands. Many Lowlanders and some English too supported the Jacobites. It's complicated.
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I've heard that claim but it's definitely false. There were certainly highlanders on both sides but from memory it's about 5000+ Highlanders on the Jacobite side at Culloden, less than a thousand on the government side.
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@memofromessex There were a couple of thousand Dutchmen at Killiecrankie
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@danielomar9712 The incompetence was mainly from the prince. Lord George Murray advised him not to fight there at all.
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I'm sceptical of this claim I don't know of any battles where this happened.
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