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Returning to England to put down the 1745 rising of the Jacobites , [William Agustus, duke of Cumberland] defeated Prince Charles Edward Stuart at Culloden Moor (1746) and earned the nickname "the Butcher" by his ruthless punishment of the rebels.

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