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Who were the Jacobites? What happened at Culloden? How did Bonnie Prince Charlie die? Everything you need to know about Scotland and the 1745 rebellion
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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...
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