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The Jacobite Army, sometimes referred to as the Highland Army, [1] was the military force assembled by Charles Edward Stuart and his Jacobite supporters during the 1745 Rising that attempted to restore the House of Stuart to the British throne.
In July 1745, Charles landed in Scotland; by the end of September, he had captured Edinburgh and defeated a government army at the Battle of Prestonpans.After intense debate, in early November a Jacobite army of around 5,000 crossed into England, where Charles believed there was strong support for a Stuart restoration.
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 Battle of Clifton Moor took place on the evening of Wednesday 18 December during the Jacobite rising of 1745.Following the decision to retreat from Derby on 6 December, the fast-moving Jacobite army split into three smaller columns; on the morning of 18th, a small force of dragoons led by Cumberland and Sir Philip Honywood made contact with the Jacobite rearguard, at that point commanded ...
Margaret Ogilvy, Lady Ogilvy (née Johnstone, 1725 – 1757) was a Scottish noblewoman and Jacobite rebel.A supporter of James VI and I, she accompanied the Jacobite army to several battles in 1746.
The Battle of Prestonpans, also known as the Battle of Gladsmuir, was fought on 21 September 1745, near Prestonpans, in East Lothian, the first significant engagement of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Jacobite forces, led by the Stuart exile Charles Edward Stuart and George Murray, defeated a government army under Sir John Cope, whose ...
Culloden Moor 1746: The Death of the Jacobite Cause. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-412-2. Reid, Stuart (2006). The Scottish Jacobite Army 1745–46. Elite series. Vol. 149. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-073-4. Szechi, Daniel; Sankey, Margaret (November 2001). "Elite Culture and the Decline of Scottish Jacobitism 1716–1745".
Cuthbert and Gordon scattered MacLeod's force at the Battle of Inverurie on 23 December 1745. Linking up with Lord John Drummond, Gordon marched to Perth and joined the main army of the insurgents. His regiment was present at Falkirk in January, where the Jacobites won a confused tactical victory against Hawley's government army.