The Eelam wars have caused extremely heavy casualties on both sides and unacceptable economic losses (estimated over $100 million) to the government as well as to the private sector. By 2002, more than 60,000 people had died in the 20-year civil war; additionally, more than 2,000 soldiers...
Jacobite casualties 250 (2). About 600 killed in all (5). 1.4 COMMEMORATION & INTERPRETATION An obelisk monument to the Clan Macrae, erected 1915, stands on the battlefield (3). The Gathering Stone is a block of grit, since 1840 enclosed in an iron cage, where the standard of the ...