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David Morgan of Penygraig (c.1695 – 30 July 1746) was a Welsh lawyer and Jacobite, or supporter of the claim of the exiled House of Stuart to the British throne.. Morgan was notable as one of only a handful of Welshmen to join the Jacobite rising of 1745, during which he briefly served in Lord Elcho's 'Life Guards' and helped raise the Manchester Regiment.
The Memoir of Walter Shairp; the Story of the Liverpool Regiment during the Jacobite Rising of 1745 in Volume CXLII;. The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. ISBN 978-0-902593-73-2. Riding, Jacqueline (2016). Jacobites: A New History of the 45 Rebellion. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1408819128. Tomasson, Katherine, Buist, Francis (1978).
The Jacobite rising of 1745 [a] was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart.It took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, when the bulk of the British Army was fighting in mainland Europe, and proved to be the last in a series of revolts that began in March 1689, with major outbreaks in 1715 and 1719.
The Scottish Jacobite Army 1745-46. Osprey. ISBN 978-1846030734. Riding, Jacqueline (2016). Jacobites; A New History of the 45 Rebellion. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1408819128. Robb, Steven (2023). James Nicolson, a Leith Jacobite Martyr. Book of the Old Edinburgh Club Vol 19. ISBN 978-0-9933987-8-0. Sankey, Margaret (2005).
The siege of Carlisle (December 1745) took place from 21 to 30 December during the Jacobite rising of 1745, when a Jacobite garrison surrendered to government forces led by the Duke of Cumberland. The town had been captured by the Jacobite army that invaded England in November 1745 and reached as far south as Derby , before turning back on 6 ...
The Battle of Falkirk Muir, or Battle of Falkirk, [a] took place near Falkirk, Scotland, on 17 January 1746 during the Jacobite rising of 1745. A narrow Jacobite victory, it had little impact on the campaign. After their withdrawal from England in December 1745, the Jacobite army besieged Stirling Castle in early January.
A British report of 1752 identified him as one of a number of Jacobite exiles who had recently been in Scotland undetected. [12] He is said to have "exhibited symptoms of insanity, and to have mutilated himself" [13] before his death in France on 15 June 1754. One source suggests he left a wife and daughter, but nothing further is known of them.
The History Of Scotland – Volume 4: From the massacre of Glencoe to the end of Jacobitism (2016 ed.). Jazzybee Verlag. ISBN 978-3849685652. Lockhart, John Gibson (1842). Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott. Palala Press. ISBN 978-1357265618. McLynn, FJ (1983). The Jacobite Army in England, 1745-46: The Final Campaign. John Donald Publishers.