Just an hour after the firing had started,
there were 1,500 Jacobite Highlanders lying slaughtered. Only 50 of the Hanoverians had perished. It was perhaps better to be one of those felled by Hanoverian guns. It spared you the sight of British soldiers coming at you, while you lay wounded,to finish you off with their newfangled bayonets. As one Hanoverian officer noted: Our men, killing the enemy, dabbling their feet in blood and splashing it about one another, look like so many butchers rather than Christian soldiers. Charles Edward survived the battle and gave the order:Every man for himself. He went on the run until it was safe to be shipped back to France. In England, the victory was riotously celebrated. Effigies of Bonnie Prince Charlie were burned at the stake.