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Crucible of the Jacobite '15 - The Battle of Sheriffmuir 1715 (Hardcover)
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Crucible of the Jacobite '15 - The Battle of Sheriffmuir 1715 (Hardcover)
Series: Century of the Soldier
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Just over three centuries ago, there was a major battle in Scotland
that was to decide the fate of the newly established - and bitterly
contested - union of England and Scotland. On one hand there was a
numerically superior army, trained and armed but officered by men
of varying experience. Facing them was a small, but better
experienced and officered British Army. Both armies; one entirely
Scottish and the other a mixture of Scots, English and Irish were
led by Scottish noblemen. Victory to either side meant control of
the gateway from the Highlands to the Lowlands and then England,
where the political prize awaited. The battle's importance can only
be appreciated by an examination of its context, in what happened
in the campaign before the crucial clash of arms and in the months
that followed it. Furthermore, an examination of the officers and
men who made up the two armies is made in order to evaluate the
human material without which there would have been no battle.
Although the book covers the campaigning in the decisive theatre of
central Scotland, it does not neglect the wider strategic concerns
of both the Jacobite court and the British government, nor the
international aspects of the rising.
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