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In 1745, Flora MacDonald plays a Jacobite song on the piano and is scolded by her stepfather for its seditious nature. In Italy, James, the Old Pretender, wants to make another attempt at regaining the throne of Great Britain (Scotland and England) and Ireland for the House of Stuart from the Hanoverian King George II, but, thinking that he is now too old, he has decided to send his son ...
The Young Jacobites is a 1960 British children's drama film serial directed by John Reeve and starring Robert Haviland, Francesca Annis and Jeremy Bulloch. [1] The screenplay was by Paul Tabori . It was produced by Anthony Gilikson for the Children's Film Foundation .
The film depicts the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 and its aftermath when the Jacobite pretender Charles Edward Stuart evaded capture by the forces loyal to the Hanoverians, and escaped to the Continental Europe with the help of Flora MacDonald.
Pages in category "Jacobite rising of 1745 films" ... (1923 film) Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948 film) C. Chasing the Deer; Culloden (film) M. The Master of Ballantrae ...
Anti-Jacobite broadside depicting Jenny Cameron and Bonnie Prince Charlie on horseback. Despite Cameron probably having limited involvement in the course of the rising, a number of "cruel and apocryphal" [6] accounts were circulated in England, some of which portrayed Cameron as an active military leader, an "amazon" marching at the head of her ...
John Sobieski Stuart. In the 1820s, two English brothers, John Carter Allen (1795–1872) and Charles Manning Allen (1802–1880) adopted the names John Sobieski Stuart and Charles Edward Stuart, moved to Scotland, converted to Catholicism, and about 1839 began to claim that their father, Thomas Allen (1767–1852), a former Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, had been born in Italy the only ...
During the Jacobite rising of 1745, Bradstreet was employed by government officials to act as a spy among the rebels. His description of a "third force" of 9,000 men in Northampton ready to fight the Scots (a force which did not in fact exist) is credited with persuading Bonnie Prince Charlie 's army to turn back at a council of war in Derby in ...
As the Jacobite cause was by then lost, with the army scattered and the prince and his lieutenants in hiding, the money was to be used to assist the Jacobite clansmen (then being subjected to the brutalities of the government forces of the Duke of Cumberland [5]) and to facilitate the escape of leading Jacobites to the continent.