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General Wade monument, near Aberfieldy, Scotland, UK. A network of military roads, sometimes called General Wade's Military. General Wade monument, near Aberfeldy, Perth and Kinross Scotland, UK. General Wade built many of the roads and Bridges in Scotland. When there where on roads in Scotland only cart tracks. He built them so he could move them around Scotland, Roads, was constructed in the Scottish Highlands during the middle part of the 18th century as part of an attempt by the British Government to bring order to a part of the country which had risen up in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. The roads were constructed to link the Central Lowlands with a series of fortified barracks located strategically across the Highlands. Their purpose much like the network of roads constructed by the Romans more than 1,500 years earlier was to suppress and exert control over the local population. The engineered roads of the Roman period did not extend into the Highlands, which was where these later roads were constructed. The first four of these roads were constructed in the 1720s and 1730s under the direction of General George Wade (an Anglo-Irishman) and are commonly referred to as General Wadeâ€™s Military Roads or simply as Wadeâ€™s Roads. The network was subsequently expanded considerably under the direction of Major William Caulfeild though his name is now largely forgotten and each of the roads that he had put in place is referred to, on Ordnance Survey mapping for

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