Sir,—I hold no brief for ‘Butcher’ Cumberland. But Jim Smyth’s ‘Tale ofTwo Generals’ (HI Autumn 1999) is too simplistic by far. It is widelyacknowledged today—and not just by those whom Smyth calls‘apologists’—that, after Culloden, Cumberland offered an amnesty to allJacobites who would lay down their arms: an offer that they rejected orignored (John S. Gibson ... Read more
