The Old Military Road–Scotland
A network of military roads, sometimes called General Wade's Military Roads, was fabricated in the Scottish Highlands during the middle part of the 18th century as part of a venture by the British Government to bring the sequence to a part of the country which had risen up in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.
The roads were assembling to link the Central Lowlands with a series of fortified encampments located imperative across the Highlands. Their purpose much like the network of roads established by the Romans more than 1,500 years earlier was to censor and exert control over the local population. The engineered roads of the Roman period did not elongate into the Highlands, which was where these later roads were manufactured.
The network was eventually expanded significantly under the direction of Major William Caulfeild though his name is now largely unremembered and each of the roads that he had put in place is referred to, on Ordnance Survey delineate for example, simply as Old Military Road. A further road was fabricated by Caulfeild in southwest Scotland in the 1760s.