On the 23d of April, 1746, the foes found themselves face to face at Culloden, in the environs of Inverness.

Charles Edward was completely beaten, and the army of the Highlanders destroyed; the prince only escaped either death or captivity by the determined devotion of his partisans, whether distinguished or obscure; a hundred persons had risked their lives for him, when he finally succeeded, on the 10th of October, in touching land, in Brittany, near St.Pol de Leon.

His friends and his defenders were meanwhile dying for his cause on scaffold or gallows.
The anger and severity displayed by the English government towards the Jacobites were aggravated by the checks encountered upon the Continent by the coalition.

At the very moment when the Duke of Cumberland was defeating Charles Edward at Culloden, Antwerp was surrendering to Louis XV.

in person: Mons, Namur, and Charleroi were not long before they fell.
Prince Charles of Lorraine was advancing to the relief of the besieged places; Marshal Saxe left open to him the passage of the Meuse.