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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... south of the Isle of Skye and with nothing to seaward but the Outer Hebrides between him and North America . To the ... South Uist and Barra . ' And Sleat likewise , when it came to the point , went over to the Hanoverians . to catch the ...
... south of the Isle of Skye and with nothing to seaward but the Outer Hebrides between him and North America . To the ... South Uist and Barra . ' And Sleat likewise , when it came to the point , went over to the Hanoverians . to catch the ...
Pagina 246
... South Uist from sea to sea . At sunset , after eating some bread and cheese , they started off again , heading north . It was the night of 20 June - a moonlit night and in these latitudes a very short one . They were making for Milton ...
... South Uist from sea to sea . At sunset , after eating some bread and cheese , they started off again , heading north . It was the night of 20 June - a moonlit night and in these latitudes a very short one . They were making for Milton ...
Pagina 248
... South Uist and Benbecula , she had been stopped on the far side by some soldiers of the Skye militia who demanded her passport . On asking what unit they belonged to and finding that her stepfather was their captain , she refused to ...
... South Uist and Benbecula , she had been stopped on the far side by some soldiers of the Skye militia who demanded her passport . On asking what unit they belonged to and finding that her stepfather was their captain , she refused to ...
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