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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 .
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
He went north to raise troops for the Jacobite cause, but needed to use both persuasion and threats of violence to raise about 300 men. [7] He was present at the Battle of Prestonpans on 21 September, when Cope's forces were routed in a 15-minute battle. He met Bonnie Prince Charlie at Holyrood House in Edinburgh in late October.
The English Historical Review. 37. Duffy, Christopher (2007). The '45: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the untold story of the Jacobite Rising. WN. ISBN 978-0753822623. Miers, Mary (2008). Mckean, Charlotte (ed.). The Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide (RIAS Series of Illustrated Architectural Guides to Scotland). Rias Publishing.