Tag: Jacobites

Free Download The Last Jacobites: Heroes, History and Culture after the Battle of Culloden by Keith Coleman
English | December 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 1399045628 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 2.58 MB
For most people, the story of the Jacobites perished on a bitter April day in 1746 when their hopes of restoring the exiled Stuart monarchy at the battle of Culloden were crushed. Beyond this military defeat, which marked the end of the ’45 rebellion, there were surviving embers who kept alive the cause for some time. For some years, Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) and his exiled supporters Descriptionted with European powers to restore his banished house and regain the British throne, but there was never again a military attempt to oust the Hanoverians who displaced his lineage.

Free Download Outlander and the Real Jacobites: Scotland’s Fight for the Stuarts by Shona Kinsella
English | April 13, 2022 | ISBN: 1399004719 | 224 pages | PDF | 6.60 Mb
Outlander has brought the story of the 1745 Jacobite uprising to the popular imagination, but who were the Jacobites, really? Explore this pivotal moment in Scottish history, visiting some of the key locations from Jamie and Claire’s travels. Discover what clan life was really like, read about medicine in the 1700s and find out whether the red coats were really as bad as Jack Randall. Meet Bonnie Prince Charlie and explore how he managed to inspire an uprising from France and then storm England with a force of no more than 5,000 soldiers. Witness the battle of Culloden and what really happened there, before exploring the aftermath of this final attempt for a Stuart restoration.