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By Hamish MacPherson
BACK IN THE DAY
1746, Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie, The Young Pretender) (1720 - 1788) being sheltered, after his defeat at Culloden, by highlanders who are on their knees before him. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). THERE were 269 years and five months between the two greatest chances to break the Union. Had Prince Charles Edward Stuart and the Jacobites won the Battle of Culloden, then he might have listened to those many advisers who had urged him to stay in Edinburgh the previous year and proclaim the end of the Union. The Duke of Cumberland (below) and the Hanoverian government army won the day, however, and the Union survived, strengthened by the many Scots who sided with the government and set the scene for the establishment and growth of the British Empire, in which many Scots played a huge part. The next opportunity to end the Union was on September 18, 2014.
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WITH it being the 275th anniversary of the Battle of Culloden, several events are being held today and over the weekend to mark the occasion and commemorate those who fell. One of the main events at the National Trust for Scotland’s Culloden Battlefield and Visitor Centre will be a talk tomorrow by Dr Darren Scott Layne, a graduate of the universities of California Berkeley and Edinburgh who received his doctorate from the University of St Andrews. He is also the creator of the Jacobite Database of 1745 website, which is currently being developed. Entitled Insistence Of Legacy, Persistence Of Memory, Layne’s talk will focus on The Battle of Culloden 275 Years On: Ideology, Optimism, And Why We Still Care.
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