Cumberland gave a taste of what he was capable of at Carlisle.The garrison had been captured by Jacobites on their march south,but they were unable to hold out against Cumberland's advance.Into this tiny space were crammed hundreds of Jacobite soldiers,locked up without any air or any water.What they did have were these shiny stones.Smooth, damp, slimy a terrible memento of their distress.To this day, they're called "Licking stones"because the prisoners were brought to such horrible extremitiesthat they were forced and reduced to sliding their tonguesin these cavities to try and collect the pathetic amount of moisture gathered on the rock.This really was Hanoverian Britain's Black Hole of Calcutta.By the time winter turned into spring in the Highlands,it was unmistakably clear that,whatever its temporary successes,the Jacobite war was lost.With every passing week,the Hanoverian advantage in men,money and guns told.The two armies eventually faced each other at Culloden,near Inverness.
