In August 1745 Charles Edward Stuart, the 'Young Pretender', landed in
Scotland and sparked the Second Jacobite Rising. The Jacobite forces
seized Perth, then Edinburgh, where they proclaimed the Young
Pretender's father King James VIII; they trounced their Hanoverian
opponents at Prestonpans and crossed into England, getting as far
south as Derby before withdrawing into Scotland. Far from universally
popular north of the border, the Jacobite army bested another
Hanoverian army at Falkirk and besieged Stirling, only to be routed by
the Duke of Cumberland's army at Culloden in April 1746, a crushing
defeat that ended any prospect of a Stuart restoration. Featuring
full-colour artwork depicting the distinctive uniforms of Cumberland's
men, this exhaustively researched study offers a wealth of detail of
regimental strengths and casualties and includes an extended
chronology that places individual units in specific places throughout
the campaign that culminated at Culloden.
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ISBN
9781782003052
Publisert
2020
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Osprey Publishing
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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