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Jacobites - A New History of the '45 Rebellion (Paperback)
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Jacobites - A New History of the '45 Rebellion (Paperback)
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The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history.
When Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as the Young Pretender,
sailed from France to Scotland in July 1745, and with only a
handful of supporters to claim the throne for his exiled father,
few people within Britain were alarmed. But after he raised the
Stuart standard at Glenfinnan in the Western Highlands, destroyed a
contingent of the British army at Prestonpans near Edinburgh, and
then marched south into England, swiftly reaching Derby, the rising
threatened to destabilise the British state, dethrone King George
and the Hanoverian dynasty, while disrupting Britain's military
capability in Europe and colonial activities in America and beyond.
Less than four decades after the controversial Act of Union between
Scotland and England, arrogance and incompetence on the part of
government ministers had allowed the small danger Charles and his
Jacobite army had initially posed to escalate into a full-scale
civil war: part of the on-going dynastic, political and ideological
struggle for the heart and soul of this new nation. Yet the reality
of the '45 continues to be obscured by fiction and myth, as
personified by the heroic, gallant but doomed 'Bonnie Prince
Charlie' versus the heartless victor, 'Butcher' Cumberland. In the
years 1745-6 nothing was certain. While utilising past and recent
scholarship, this magnificent account draws extensively on a wealth
of contemporary sources, revealing the thoughts and feelings of the
key players and local eyewitnesses as these extraordinary events
played out. What emerges is a story more complex, paradoxical and
even tragic than the myth suggests. From the exiled Stuart court in
Rome to the palaces of Versailles and Holyroodhouse, from the
battlefields of Flanders to Falkirk and Culloden, Jacobites
brilliantly sets the '45 in its full and proper context on the
stage of European history. And in our own time of seismic shift for
the Union, the British political system, constitution and monarchy,
Jacobites offers a timely re-telling of this critical episode in
our island's shared past.
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