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The Last Battle on English Soil, Preston 1715 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Last Battle on English Soil, Preston 1715 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Whilst much has been written about the Jacobites, most works have
tended to look at the Rebellion of 1745, rather than the earlier
attempt to reinstate the Stuart dynasty. As such this book provides
a welcome focus on events in 1715, when Jacobites in both England
and Scotland tried to oust George I and to replace him with James
Stuart. In particular it provides a detailed narrative and analysis
of the campaign in the Lowlands of Scotland and in the north of
England that led to the decisive battle at Preston and ended the
immediate prospects of the Jacobite cause. Drawing upon a wealth of
under-utilised sources, the work builds on existing research into
the period to give weight to the community and individual
dimensions of the crisis as well as to the military ones. Contrary
to popular myth, the Jacobite army contained both English and
Scots, and because it surrendered almost intact, an analysis of the
surviving list of Jacobite prisoners captured in the North West
England reveals much information about their origins, occupations,
unit structure and, sometimes, religion, as well as the quality of
the soldiers' arms and equipment, their experience and that of
their leaders. Through this study of the last major battle to be
fought on English soil, a clearer picture emerges of the
individuals and groups who sought to mould the direction of the
freshly created British state and the dynasty that should rule it.
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