Early on the morning of the 16th of April, the army advanced in three columns towards Inverness, and about eleven o’clock the rebel forces were discovered on _Culloden_ moor, when the royal army formed for battle; the THIRTEENTH regiment having its post in Brigadier-General Mordaunt’s division, and bringing into the field twenty-two officers, twenty-three serjeants, nineteen drummers, and three hundred and ten rank and file. In the first instance, the regiment formed part of the reserve, but as the army advanced, a change in the character of the ground occasioned the THIRTEENTH foot to be ordered forward to take post on the right of the royals. The fire of cannon was succeeded by several charges, in which the King’s troops were victorious. A body of Highlanders, with broad swords and targets, advanced towards the THIRTEENTH foot, but they were intimidated by the gallant bearing of the regiment, and fled from the field before the soldiers could close upon them with bayonets. The rebel army was routed at every part of the field, and pursued for several miles with great slaughter, and the loss of all its artillery. Thus the events of one day transformed the young Pretender from an imaginary monarch to a destitute fugitive, and after enduring great hardship and suffering he escaped to France. After the victory at Culloden, the regiment was encamped a short period at Inverness, and it was subsequently employed in escorting the prisoners taken on that occasion. The rebellion in Scotland having been suppressed, the THIRTEENTH regiment was ordered to return to the Netherlands. It landed in Holland in the autumn and advanced up the country to Maestricht, where it arrived on the 9th of October. At this period, the French army under Marshal Saxe, and the allied army under Prince Charles of Lorraine, were manœuvring in the vicinity of the city of Liege, and an engagement being expected, the regiment received orders to advance with all possible expedition, and join the army. In obedience to these orders, the regiment quitted Maestricht, and, by a forced march, arrived in the vicinity of Liege on the morning of the 11th of October, at the moment when the French army was developing its attack on three villages, which were occupied by eight battalions of English, Dutch, and Hessians. The regiment was instantly ordered to take post near the village of _Roucoux_, under the command of Brigadier-General Houghton. The leading brigades of the enemy were repulsed, and a second line of combatants was defeated; but the enemy brought forward so many fresh troops, that the eight battalions were driven from the villages by superior numbers. A retreat was ordered, which was executed with great regularity, and the army inarched to the vicinity of Maestricht. [Sidenote: 1747] The regiment was subsequently employed in the province of Limburg, and passed the winter in quarters near the Dutch frontiers.