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Fort Augustus

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Fort Augustus, Scotland/UK Kilcumein/Cille Chuimein Originally named ‘Culmein's Church’ after Culmein, one of the followers of the charismatic St Columba (c.521–97), who was buried here. Developed in the 1730s around a military garrison established to help quell the Jacobite rebellion, it was renamed after William Augustus (1721–65), Duke of Cumberland and second son of King George II^†. He was nicknamed ‘Butcher Cumberland’ as a result of his actions after the Battle of Culloden in the final suppression of the Jacobite rebellion in Scotland in 1745.

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Fort Augustus

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Fort Augustus Highland. The village grew up around the garrison enlarged by General Wade in the 1730s and named after William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721–65). The Gaelic name is Cill Chuimein ‘Cuimein's Church’.

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