The Act of Proscription breaks the clans
1746 · Event
After the Culloden reprisals comes the legal demolition: tartan and Highland dress banned, weapons confiscated, the pipes treated as an instrument of war, and the chiefs' hereditary courts abolished outright. The clan system that carried the prince to Derby is dismantled by statute — and the emptied glens are cleared for sheep within a generation.
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