Bonnie Prince CharlieCanongate, 1998 - 386 pagini This biography portrays the Young Pretender's struggle to rally the clans and restore a Stuart monarch to the British throne. How he nearly succeeded in changing the course of British history is told, as are the accounts of the 1745 Rising and the massacre at Culloden. Prince Charlie's subsequent adventures in France and Italy, until his eventual death in Rome over 40 years later, are also covered. Sir Fitzroy MacLean is the author of Eastern Approaches. |
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Pagina 71
... Prince's army , numbering over 2,000 men , marched out of Perth by the Stirling road in the direction of Edinburgh . On the first day's march there was an unfor- tunate scene when the Prince's newly appointed Master of the Horse , Sir ...
... Prince's army , numbering over 2,000 men , marched out of Perth by the Stirling road in the direction of Edinburgh . On the first day's march there was an unfor- tunate scene when the Prince's newly appointed Master of the Horse , Sir ...
Pagina 153
... forces could be quickly concentrated , might take advantage of this and of the wide dispersal of the Highlanders to attack them suddenly and defeat them in detail . Accordingly on the morning of 15 and again on 16 January the Prince's army ...
... forces could be quickly concentrated , might take advantage of this and of the wide dispersal of the Highlanders to attack them suddenly and defeat them in detail . Accordingly on the morning of 15 and again on 16 January the Prince's army ...
Pagina 187
... Elcho , ' governed the Prince entirely ' . Certainly the Prince's troops seem by this time to have been short of almost everything , and , according to Lord Elcho , ' their was great discontent in his Army at this time both amongst the 187.
... Elcho , ' governed the Prince entirely ' . Certainly the Prince's troops seem by this time to have been short of almost everything , and , according to Lord Elcho , ' their was great discontent in his Army at this time both amongst the 187.
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