Hi there, I'm an American that has recently become interested more deeply into my Scottish heritage. My granddad has been a member of the Clan Gunn Society of North America for decades, and I recently joined their groups on Facebook.

Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden in 1746, and I've seen numerous posts on these groups about the battle, with resounding sentiment of "Alba Gu Bràth". It's interesting to me because my understanding of the Rising of '45 is that it wasn't a "Scotland vs. England" clash so much as it was a civil war, and it certainly didn't have anything to do with Scottish nationalism at the time - in fact, there were French and English troops that fought in Prince Charles' Jacobite army as well as Scots (including 120 members of Clan Gunn, from what I can tell) that fought for George II.

My question is this - when and why does the popular perception of Culloden shift from that of former monarch vs. current monarch to one of Scotland vs. England? Does it have to do with the Clearances? 20th century Scottish Nationalism? And, are there any good resources that deal with historical memory of Culloden or the Jacobite rebellions more broadly? What are your thoughts, reddit?