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  2. 3 days ago · David Dickson's well-regarded text book concedes that Ireland played no part in the risings of 1715 or 1745, but nevertheless suggests that the ups and downs of the Jacobite cause were watched with a 'mixture of despair and providential expectation', and that 'the prospect of a Jacobite restoration ... remained the most powerful theme ...

  3. 5 days ago · The last military action at the castle took place during the second Jacobite rising of 1745. The Jacobite army, under Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie"), captured Edinburgh without a fight in September 1745, but the castle remained in the hands of its ageing Deputy Governor, General George Preston , who refused to surrender. [99]

  4. 6 days ago · Summary. This course explores the revolutions, reforms and political upheavals of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scotland. As well as examining the main events from the Covenanting revolution of 1638-41 to the Jacobite rising of 1745, the course pays particular attention to political culture and forms of popular participation in politics.

  5. 5 days ago · Additionally, the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the infamous Highland Clearances further contributed to the sparse population in certain regions. These events led to the displacement of many Highlanders and the outlawing of their traditional way of life, resulting in a significant decline in population.

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  6. 4 days ago · During the Jacobite rising of 1745, he commanded the "Baltimore" sloop in the North Sea, and was dangerously wounded in the head while cooperating with a frigate in an engagement with two strong French privateers. In 1746 he became post-captain, and commanded the "Triton" in the West Indies.

  7. 3 days ago · When the Jacobite pretender Charles Edward Stuart led the 1745 rising, the song spread among those loyal to King George II. The tune published in The Gentleman's Magazine in 1745 departs from that used today at several points, one as early as the first bar, but is otherwise clearly a strong relative of the contemporary anthem.

  8. 3 days ago · THE INSURRECTION OF 1715. Of which the Rebellion of 1745 was the sequel. When James 11 issued an Ecclesiastical Commission with power to exercise all manner of spiritual jurisdiction; when a royal declaration of indulgence brought over from the Continent swarms of Jesuits, and when an order appeared forbidding the clergy to preach on controverted points of doctrine or to declare in anyway ...

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