Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other

by Sam Heughan

The Charge, however, was to prove fatal on the boggy moor of Culloden (1746). The old warrior style of fighting could not contend with modern weapons, nor British tactics, and approximately 1,500–2,000 Highlanders and 300–400 British soldiers were slain in a battle that lasted no more than an hour.

fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

‘We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us . . . but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?’

but the key thing you have to understand about Sam is that he is a nine-year-old masquerading in adult clothes.

In the tradition of our filming for Clanlands, the equipment was sourced with maximum discomfort and danger in mind.