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In 1745 during the Jacobite rising she vented her Whiggism in a squib upon Bonnie Prince Charlie, and narrowly escaped being taken by the Highland guard as she was driving through Edinburgh in the family coach of the Keiths of Ravelston, with the parody in her pocket.
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* 1745 – Charles Edward Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
In 1745 the city was captured by French forces during the War of the Austrian Succession before being returned to Austria following the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
After the Siege of Louisbourg ( 1745 ) during King George's War, the New Englanders also captured Île Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ).
The utter weakness of the French at sea, due to long neglect of the fleet and the bankrupt state of the treasury, was shown during the Jacobite rising of 1745, when France made no attempt to profit by the distress of the British government.
Frederick II had abandoned his French ally during the War of Austrian Succession, signing a separate peace treaty with Austria in December 1745.
In 1994, he appeared in Chasing the Deer, a film set during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, as " Angus Cameron ".
Charles lived for several years in exile with his Scottish mistress, Clementina Walkinshaw, whom he met, and may have begun a relationship with, during the 1745 rebellion.
The last military action at the castle was during the second Jacobite rising of 1745.
His studies were interrupted by the arrival of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Highlanders, who occupied Edinburgh during the 1745 Jacobite rising.
Matinicus was first settled in 1750 by a squatter, Ebenezer Hall, who had served as a lieutenant during the 1745 Battle of Louisburg.
Settled in 1761, the town was originally named " New Breton ," having been granted primarily to soldiers who had taken part in the 1745 capture of Cape Breton during hostilities with the French in Canada.
It soon became contested land between British and French colonial forces, and the village of Saratoga ( now Schuylerville ) was destroyed by the French in 1745 during King George's War.
The Young Pretender had his headquarters here during a 3-day sojourn in Dumfries towards the end of 1745.
Monthly use of depth charges increased from 100 to 300 per month during 1917 to an average of 1745 per month during the last 6 months of World War I.
* John Barry ( naval officer ) ( 1745 – 1803 ), an officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War and later in the United States Navy
The regiment itself was downgraded to a battalion ( Garde-Grenadier No 6 ) and employed during the War of the Austrian Succession at Hohenfriedberg in 1745 and at Rossbach, Leuthen, Hochkirch, Liegnitz and Torgau throughout the Seven Years ' War.
Wolfe's regiment was left behind to garrison Ghent, which meant they missed the Allied defeat at the Battle of Fontenoy in May 1745 during which Wolfe's former regiment suffered extremely heavy casualties.
He gained experience organizing military expeditions during King George's War when he assembled many of the elements of the New England expedition that successfully captured Fortress Louisbourg in 1745, one of the feats for which he is best known.
Gridley was a military engineer during the French and Indian Wars from the reduction of Fortress Louisbourg in 1745 to the fall of Quebec.
Other contenders for the title of last English battle include: the Battle of Preston in Lancashire, which was fought on 14 November 1715, during the First Jacobite Rebellion ; and the Second Jacobite Rebellion's minor engagement at Clifton Moor, near Penrith in Cumbria, on 18 December 1745.
His father, Thomas Poor had been part of the 1745 expedition that captured Louisburg, Nova Scotia, during King George's War.
Howe joined the army as an Ensign of the 1st Foot Guards in 1745 and saw service during the Flanders campaign of the War of the Austrian Succession.
Another tale is that during the 1745 Rebellion a soldier on his way back to Scotland during the 1745-6 retreat from England wrote this song.
1745 and Jacobite
* 1745 – Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan – the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as " the 45 ".
The Farquharsons were Jacobite sympathisers, and James Farquharson of Balmoral was involved in both the 1715 and 1745 rebellions, and was wounded at the Battle of Falkirk in 1746.
During the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, Hume tutored the Marquis of Annandale ( 1720 – 92 ), who was officially described as a " lunatic ".
Jacobite rebellions continued on into the mid-18th century until the son of the last Catholic claimant to the throne, ( James III & VIII ), mounted a final campaign in 1745.
In 1745 the Jacobite rising known as The ' Forty-Five began.
* MacRobert, A. E. " The Myths about the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion ," Historian 2008, Issue 99, pp 16 – 23
The Myth of the Jacobite Clans: The Jacobite Army in 1745 ( 2nd ed.
Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire ( 2005 )
In his Essay Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities, written just after the Jacobite rising of 1745 he described how the politics of Scotland were not based on loyalty to Kings or Queens as Jacobites had said but on royal land grants given in return for loyalty.
A considerable number of islesmen " came out " in support of the Jacobite Earl of Mar in the " 15 " and again in the 1745 rising including Macleod of Dunvegan and MacLea of Lismore.
Representation of The Jacobite 1745 flag.
* 1745 – Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
It was a tale of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
* September 20 – Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to the Isle of Skye from Arisaig, after the unsuccessful Jacobite rising of 1745, marked by the Prince's Cairn on the banks of Loch nan Uamh
The Jacobite threat was ended, soon after Walpole's term ended, by the defeat of the rebellion of 1745.
Charles is perhaps best known as the instigator of the unsuccessful Jacobite uprising of 1745, in which he led an insurrection to restore an absolute monarchy in the United Kingdom, which ended in defeat at the Battle of Culloden that effectively ended the Jacobite cause.
Similarly, the 1994 film Chasing the Deer depicts the 1745 Jacobite rebellion from the point of view of the commoners caught in the struggle.
* Scottish author Sir Walter Scott featured Charles and the 1745 Jacobite uprising in his popular 1814 novel Waverley.
Category: People of the Jacobite rising of 1745
The town was occupied by Jacobite supporters on three occasions ( 1689, 1715 and 1745 ).
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