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The intention is to create a fully transcribed library of all the books or memoirs written by the participants in the 1745-6 Jacobite Rebellion. These books are delivered in a unique format with links to any and all information I have found (including place name resolution using my map of the Jacobite Rebellion). These links are automatically populated by my Historical Timeline software. All of these books are out of copyright and transcribed (some are only scanned) by me. You are free to do with them whatever you wish. They tell a story of the lives of ordinary people - a people that went on to populate and create great nations such as Canada, Australia, and America among others. In reading their story, you may be reading your own. Also try the NEW List of Rebels database which is now completed from the SHS publication A List of persons concerned in the Rebellion transmitted to the Commissioners of Excise by the several supervisors in Scotland in obedience to a Dave Waddell January 9th, 2010 P.S. I personally want to thank the Scottish History Society (SHS) for bringing so many of these publications to light since 1887. I also want to thank Google Books and the Internet Archive for making so much of our rich history available. For help with reading 18th Century texts see our reference page. |
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Itinerary of Prince Charles Edward Stuart from his landing in Scotland July 1745 to his departure in September 1746. By Robert Forbes, Walter Biggar Blaikie (WBB). Also by WBB is Origins of the 'Forty-Five Henry Fielding's pamphlet (published in October 1745 shortly after the government defeat at the Battle of Prestonpans) is called The History of the Present Rebellion In Scotland The Memorials of John Murray of Broughton: sometime secretary to Prince Charles Narrative by John Mackenzie, LORD MACLEOD eldest son of the Earl of Cromartie David, Lord Elcho's A Short Account of the Affairs of Scotland in the years 1744, 1745, and 1746 (with maps [larger download]) James Maxwell of Kirconnell's narrative Chevalier de Johnstone's memoirs volume One (I also have Two and Three but they're less relevant to the story dealing with Johnstone's escape to the continent and his subsequent life in Canada) This is the story of the Highlander's greatest weapon - the basket-hilted broadsword - commonly known as an Andrew Ferrara Prince Charlie's Pilot Donald MacLeod - The Faithful Palinurus The Plundering of Cullen House by the Rebels A compleat history of the rebellion, From its first Rise, in 1745, To its total Suppression at the glorious Battle of Culloden, in April, 1746 by James Ray of Whitehaven An important event leading up to the forty-five was the The Siege of Edinburgh Castle in 1689. Also recounted in this edition of Siege of Edinburgh Castle of 1689 by the Ballantyne Club. |
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The Scots magazine, Volume 8 March 1746 William Shenstone's (English poet, gardener and collector b.1714 d.1763 ) ballad of Jemmy Dawson. |
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Bonnie Prince Charlie in Cumberland - J.A. Wheatley (1903) The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club Volume II from 1909 contains three interesting articles: Edinburgh at the time of the Occupation of Prince Charles ... the Flodden Wall and its pullout map. |
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