Ruthven Barracks, Kingussie, Scotland - The last Jacobite battle! Bonnie Prince Charlie
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- The beautiful barracks of Ruthven near Kingussie in the Highlands of Scotland 🏴
Little known and often missed by visitors to this area, Ruthven Barracks was the site of the final Jacobite battle of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s 1745/1746 ill-fated campaign.
Just days after being defeated at Culloden on the 16th April 1746 thousands of Jacobites descended up on British garrison outpost at Ruthven near Kingussie much time the horror of the handful of British redcoat soldiers based here!
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Och goodness, that’s where I grew up 😊 There’s a churchyard tucked beside the river in Kingussie which has some really old graves in it. John Macpherson, Ruthven barrack master is buried there, along with his children. The stones have incredible lettering on them.
I know it well Maureen. I thought the ground might be boggy so skipped it after all the flooding. Hope it brought back happy memories
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What a beautiful location. Your stories bring this desolate place to life, John. Thanks for taking us here!
Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed
Blessings, John. How AWESOME! Thanks so very much for sharing your SKILL with us. I have traveled around the world a few times, lived in China for 15 years, but I never made it to Scotland. London, England, yes…but not Scotland. My loss. Now I’m too old and broken, to travel. Thank you, for sharing the absolute BEAUTY of Scotland. Blessings, from this old man in northeast Tennessee. BRAVO!
Really interesting John,giving the bendy thumbs a break!Thank you
Haha 😂 the thumbs needed the break 😂
This is an amazing tour with the history as well. Loved seeing the horses roaming free. John you are so lucky to live in a country with so much history and historical places. America is a baby in comparison. Can’t wait for the next tour and history lesson. Thank you
America a baby? Well I think not.
What about the Aztec, Inka, Indian history?
Many thanks and best wishes. Have a great weekend! I never take our amazing history for granted that’s for sure and it never fails to impress no matter how often I visit
@@wolfdog7265 granted but a lot of our historical sites aren’t preserved the way they should be
Used to pass this place regulariy on the way to my German Stalker pals at the Invreshie House Hotel at nearby Kincraig, back in the eighties,stunning area. Lighting at night is positively haunting and dramatic.
Always meant to have a look round the Barracks but sadly never got around to it. Really enjoyed your video.
Used to do battlefield renactments with an 18th Century replica three pounder, RFA Period Uniform the lot.
The coat and tricorn hat was surprisingly effective in inclement Highland Weather.
The 45 is a particular old hobby.
One of the first things you learn about the 45 is that many of The Redcoats were in fact Scottish.
The Argyll Militia,The Royal Scots(Pontuis Pilutes Bodyguard) The North British Fusiliers(Ayrshire),Gardiners Dragoons,The Glasgow Militia,The Cameronians, The Black Watch. Add to that Dutch,German, and French Hueganots and The 45 is not so clear cut as it would at first seem. There were English County and Household Regiments there they were by no means alone however.
There is a recorded incident at Ruthven of a Sergeant Molloy and a limited number of men defending The Barracks against a Superior Jacobite force when this was I do not know.
The Jacobite's later burned the place.
Dragoons inccidentaly could function as cavalry or infantry being 'armed to the teeth,' with sword and pistol,as well as musket and bayonet as opposed to cavalry carbine.
Brilliant I wish we had known about the Barracks and final days of the Jacobite rebellion. Thank you so interesting. I'm Engish, my husband was part Scottish and would have loved your videos. I'll tell the kids to watch.
Many thanks. Hope you get a chance to visit!
Wonderful history! Thank you for sharing 😊
Thanks for watching otherwise I wouldn’t do it!!
Love this, so interesting. The effort it must have taken to construct this Garrison, just amazing. Also can’t help but chuckle about the “provisions”. How times have changed. 😅
Thanks Tanja! The surveyors who came to design the garrison were actually kidnapped, but in the moment I forgot to mention that bit… very much the lawless highlands 😂
Thank you, John, for the wonderful little tour of the barracks. Your presentation is great, as you narrate the history of the area. Perhaps someday I will be able to actually visit Scotland. Cheers from Texas.
Make it happen David! You won’t regret it. Thanks for the kind words
thoroughly enjoyed another trip through bonny Scotland
Much appreciated Robert… king of Scot’s
Wow John such an interesting talk. Thanks, John.
Many thanks 😊
What a amazing tour of the castle & info was well truely detailed, AMAZING 😊😊
Much appreciated Neil. Thanks for watching
Beautiful scenery John ..and as usual excellent story telling ..
I suspect someone as left the gate open letting the horses lose to wander ..
your appreciation around them was quite amusing … just as well I wasn’t there or I would of ribbed you big time … 😆🤭
Haha 😂 I was terrified Chris
Thx for the tour💕
Realy intresting place.wish i can visit some day
Make it happen!! 🏴
I love your tours and history lessons!!! Scotland has such a great history! Thank you!!!!!!
Splendid tour but still a sad place no matter which side you chose.
It is Judith…. Tough times in the Highlands
Thank you! Fascinating tour!
You bring history to life!
How the heck to you keep all that historical knowledge in your head??!!!
Thanks Terry… sometimes I forget my own name!! 😂
It’s so weird not hearing you say “the fields of Perthshire” 😅
Loving this channel too!
Haha 😂 yes I often nearly say it by mistake 😂 glad you enjoyed
My husband and I were here a couple times when we stayed at our holiday lodge in Aviemore.....I soooo love this whole place but never knew the knowledge you have shared...Thank you John!
Many thanks! Come back soon!!
Have a great weekend, John
You too! Hope you enjoy 😊
Very interesting and enjoyable John. Stunning scenery and history telling. All the best bud.
Much appreciated
Enjoyed this tour very much with my morning coffee. I love Scottish history as it is a great part of my ancestry. A physical tour of Scotland is on my bucket list but until then...
Many thanks Kathy! See you on the next
Amazing John enjoyed it very much🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Thanks for watching
Fascinating history, It wasn’t until my 68th year for me to learn the history of Jack and Jill.
Now I will share this knowledge with my 8 and 10 year old granddaughters.
Thanks again John,
Kevin
Thanks Kevin. Never too old to learn as I find out every day! Best wishes, John
66 and I agree !!
This was a wonderful tour!!! Thank you, Patty 😊♥️🏴
This tour was fantastic, John! Thanks for putting this together for us 😊
I enjoyed your tour. I hope to someday make it there, and if so, I would be fortunate to participate one of your tours.
Much appreciated see you soon I hope
Thank you. Very interesting. I especially liked the explanation of Jack and Jill! Those horses are pretty big, but you did just fine. 🤨 God bless
Haha 😂 not gonna lie I was a bit terrified 😆
WONDERFUL VIDEO in every way. Thanks. from an 81 yr old granny, who has deep Scottish roots. I'm in Montana, USA.
So exciting new content!!
Hope you enjoy Jaimee
@@visitscotlandtours1 will do even if it's 12am here in Aus haha
Get to bed!! 😂
Thank you for doing these videos! I have Stewarts on both sides of my paternal family tree!
Many thanks Keli. Hope you’ve been to find that ancestry
Love both your channels❤️
Thanks so much! And thanks for watching.
Love this video so much. As a veteran and flintlock enthusiast I was fascinated. Get ready, my wife are planning a visit with you as our guide.
Thanks for bringing us along for the ride 🐴 😜 Seriously, phenomenal tour such a heart wrenching end with the rallying Jacobites left to go their own ways and to know what happened. Thanks for sharing!
the failure of the 45 can 100pc be put down to L G Murray - that is one man Charles was right in never forgiving - but to those who might only know of Culloden Charles Edward Stuart makes the easy target .
As a Tennessean, I truly enjoyed this! I love anything that pertains to history!
Many thanks Carrie. Glad you enjoyed
Thank you for posting ❤
Thanks for watching Bryan
Fabulous, thank you. Best history lesson I ever had. Looking forward to the next one 😊
Much appreciated, see you on the next
A great tour, John. I can’t figure out why we’ve never stopped there when visiting family. Driven past. Lol. Definitely worth a visit next time. Thanks for the history of the barracks and area.
My pleasure… you aren’t alone, so many drive by and miss this fantastic site!
Really enjoyed this, we saw it from the highway but couldn’t figure out how to get to it so it was really nice to see this video and hear the history of it.
Thanks!
Fantastic video! Love to learn the history of Scotland. Very interesting! ❤
Many thanks, glad you enjoyed
Love love love!!!! Video quality was excellent and loved hearing the history!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks, John, for a Great tour and some wonderful sights. You seem to be a well of information and local knowledge love hearing about the beautiful country of Scotland and hope to visit before I pass from this world.
Much appreciated Donald…. I don’t know where I keep all the info!! Much appreciated
@@visitscotlandtours1 😂
That was a great video. We drove past this location on vacation. and were wondering about it. Ontario Canada
Thanks James … haste ye back
Thanks for the History lesson.
My pleasure Calvin. Thanks for watching
beautiful with hills and horses in background
Many thanks Sheila. Glad you enjoyed
Thanks for the tour John.
love the history lesson John. Jack and Gill! LOL
Much appreciated John. Best wishes
Great tour John, thanks.
Thanks Sharlene. Much appreciated
Very interesting, thank you! 👍🙏❤️
Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed
Really enjoyed that Thank you
Thanks for watching
For all the years i have lived up here, I've never been to visit. It's one of those things that's on your doorstep but never go to see. I'll be going sometime soon after watching this. Thank you for a great video.
Much appreciated Janet. It’s a peaceful place and beautiful views too!!
That was fascinating to learn, John! TU
Much appreciated , glad you enjoyed
Thank you John, wonderful video and scenery!
Thabks for watching Debbie and for supporting my new channel!! Have a great weekend
In Copenhagen today theres is Culturel
Night! What a treat Thankey John
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Must pleasure as ever Toni. Have a great weekend
Oh, well done! 😊
Thanks for the interesting history John.
My pleasure thanks for watching
This was great Thankyou John😊❤
thanks for a very great history lesson John ,Ruthven might be a ruin but it still looks impressive to-day thanks again cheers
Thanks James. A really beautiful place and so often you’ve got it all to yourself!
Fantastic! 😎
Thanks for watching
They are beautiful horses. Interesting how Jacobite came about. I love this castle . What a shame how all the wood got burned., in all these castles. Now I realize why these castles are ruins now. Could these ever be reconstructed, I wonder. Lovely views all around the fort. Thank you
Thanks for the tour!
Bloody good show, John. We might have to come for a holiday one day and look you up 👍🏻
Make it happen Dave. You won’t regret it!!
I’ve been right by Ruthven Barracks, but it was not a stop on our tour ☹️. My husband has gotten to explore there, though, when he was in the Kingussie area for a Clan MacPherson gathering. Even though I did not get to explore Ruthven, I did stay overnight in Newtonmore, just a wee bit down the A86. And, though it was after regular hours, I had arranged for a private tour of the Clan MacPherson Museum in Newtonmore. That area has a very special meaning for our family.
Love learning about Scotland where my grandfather came from.
What an amazing place. I bet the room above the bakery was the warmest of the lot!! Has anything ever been found in or around the area? Bet you'd love to detect there - though I don't suppose it's allowed. Thanks for taking us around 🙂
A lovely tour, John. If I ever get over there to take a tour with you I promise to save you from any horses we might meet. Negotiate your safe passage for a small discount. Good job and I look forward to your next video!
Haha 😂 you can be my personal horse bodyguard 😂
❤ love it, many thanks for the tour
Thank you. Very interesting 😊
Much appreciated thanks
Was für eine schöne location.Ich bin dankbar für das Video um die Geschichte der Jacobiter zu erfahren sowie über die Rebellion des Bonnie Prince Charlie und natürlich ein Teil von James Fraser - Outlander - Geschichte.
Thanks ☺️
Good one John last week there was a loch in front of it. I filmed it on my way down to Glasgow
It’s amazing how much it floods even today Margaret!
Your country has been on my bucket list for a long time I would like to think that one day I could see its beauty in person. But as you say, Och well. Cheers!
Excellent tour! I just subscribed ! Greetings from Wisconsin
Thanks and welcome to the channel! Lots more virtual tours coming!
That was an excellent historic tour. Thank you so much. ❤
Thank you for all you do for us fans! Your videos are excellent and very educational.
That was fascinating, thank you. I’ve been a huge Outlander fan since the 1990’s and love seeing locations from that timeframe. I’d love to go to Scotland but with my age and financial limitations I’m sure I’ll never make it. Videos like this are the best I can hope for.
What a fascinating, hugely informative tour this is, Sir! I love the way you relate the history and can really feel the energy of the inhabitants, the intense tensions of the times. thank you for bringing it all so alive! And the horses are a magical and poignant element to the stunning scene. With Gratitude!
Awwww, So nice of you, thank you for the feedback ☺️
thank you
Many thanks, thanks for watching
Beautiful stonework!
Beautiful. Thank you
I was with you family in Scotland in 2006, we went to Culleden. I wish we had known about this place. There is a simila place in West Sussex with houses from various centuries brought from various areas of South of England. Well worth a visit if your down this end of the country. Also not far from there is the remains of a Roman Villa. Half term is a good time to visit both places with lots of activities.
I love a good Roman villa!! The Roman period for me is a delight!!! Hope you make it back soon
What an interesting tour. It was nice also to have it quiet so we could hear the events clearly. Thanks for the history lessons.
That was really great, love History just found the channel looking forward to seeing more, I'm Scottish from Glasgow. Thanks fir a great vlog wonderful scenery 👍 ❤
My pleasure Helen and welcome to the channel. Much appreciated
@@visitscotlandtours1 Thank you 😊
Fascinating! ❤
Very nice fact filled and enjoyable 👍
Awesome video! Great history with beautiful scenery ❤ my 8th Great Grandfather was in the Battle of Dunbar. He was captured at 17 and sent to the colonies after the awful march they endured. He made it. I really enjoy the history. Feel bad Grandpa never saw his parents or siblings again 😢
Nice one!
Thanks Marian. Have a great weekend
Thanks 👍
What a fantastic tour, mate! You've really reignited a passion for the history of my homeland! Do you recommend any books on Scottish history, John?
Well there’s a lot to choose from. A history of Scotland by the now controversial Neil…. Scotland 2,000 years of history by Goering….. the Scottish Nation by Tom Devine…. History of a Nation by David Ross are good starting points
Enjoy!! 😆
@@visitscotlandtours1 Awesome. Thank you, brother!
Excellent!Been there many times,but you brilliantly, filled in gaps about the place, I never knew.
Glad it was helpful! Many thanks. Hope to see you on the next virtual tour
Well done 👍
These videos are great! Looking forward to more!
Love your tours❤️🇨🇦
I, an American, drove with a friend to Kingussie in 1980. As we entered the town, there was a road sign, pointing right, that said "Ruthven - 1 mile". Since my last name is Ruthven, I intended to go to the pub in Ruthven and buy a round for everyone. But alas, there was no town (and no pub). So we settled for the ruins of the Ruthven Barracks. I have photos of it, but see no way to post them here.
Awesome video John! Is there a Treasury in this Fort? 😮
Cheers John! Thoroughly enjoyed your Tour, so much to learn about your beautiful Country. As an Englishwoman, I, like many other kids, were only taught about English history, we knew about Bonnie Prince Charlie, due to old films shown at the Saturday morning cinema, Rob Roy comes to mind. Queen Elizabeth 1 Cousin, Marybeing imprisoned and ultimately killed, I only learnt that she spent 20 years in fancy jail houses, from a TV programme. We've been the subjects of the propaganda machine for hundreds of years, still are lied to every day. I trust that you will set the record straight John. Your channel should soon grow with videos like these, AMAZING!! Will you be doing Sterling Castle? How on earth they built that is way beyond my imagination it seems to cling to the rocks! We've driven past it many times but as a wheelchair user, the only way to see around there, is through someone else's eyes, though they certainly wouldn't be as knowledgeable as you. I look forward to learning so much more from you John, you missed your calling as a Teacher and that's a fact. Much love chez 😘😘😘
Thanks from Oz (Australia). Planning a trip to Scotland soon.
You’re welcome, have a great time when you come.
@@visitscotlandtours1 … Will do thanks. Heading up to Banff for genealogical reasons and seeing the country while we’re at it.
An excellent snapshot of this fantastic structure. Thank you John
Much appreciated Ian many thanks
Very informative and interesting.
Love your tours!
What an achievement by the stonemasons and builders to erect those stone structures most of which have stood the test of time.
Amazing. Better still the original engineers and surveyors were kidnapped by the locals…. Never easy 😂