Name |
Charles'Bonnie Prince Charlie'Edward Louis Philip Casimir Stuart |
Born |
31 Dec 1720 |
Palazzo Muti, Rome (Roma), Lazio (Latium), Italy |
Gender |
Male |
History |
23 Jul 1745 |
Eriskay, Outer Hebrides, Inverness-shire, Scotland |
After failing to persuade the French to support his claim to the English throne and thereby restore Catholicism, the maverick Bonnie Prince Charlie lands at Eriskay with seven companions to lead and incite a Jacobite rebellion with charisma but empty promises of money and men. |
History |
21 Sep 1745 |
Prestonpans, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland |
The Battle of Prestonpans was the first significant conflict in the second Jacobite Rising. A Jacobite army of 1,400 Highlanders loyal to James Francis Edward Stuart and led by his son Charles Edward Stuart defeated a 2,300 dragoon army loyal to the Hanoverian George II led by Sir John Cope. Only 170 dragoons managed to escape. |
History |
Nov 1745 |
Swarkestone Bridge, Swarkestone, Derbyshire, England |
After taking Carlisle, the Jacobite Rebellion led by Bonnie Prince Charlie marched on towards London. The advance party of his army reached Swarkestone Bridge to gain control of the crossing of the Trent. Despite the objections of the Prince, the decision was made by his council to return to Scotland, largely because of the almost complete lack of support from English Jacobites that Charles had promised. |
History |
Dec 1745 |
Derby, Derbyshire, England |
Having stopped over in Derby, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites march dejectedly northwards with stragglers picked-off en-toute by the English. |
History |
16 Apr 1746 |
Culloden, Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland |
The exiled Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Bonnie Prince Charlie fled the battlefield of Culloden and survived for five months in Scotland despite a £30,000 reward for his capture. He eventually returned to France, making a dramatic if humiliating escape disguised as a "lady's maid" to Flora MacDonald.
Following the Jacobite rising and Bonnie Prince Charles defeat, the Highland clans were genocidally wiped from the face of Scotland by English troops and their fellow Scots Lowlanders as directed by their commander William Augustus 'Butcher' Hanover, Duke of Cumberland
In 1756 surviving remnants of the clans would pledge allegiance to the British crown and fight for Britain in the Seven Years War. The British people had to search their souls for the atrocities they befallen upon its the Highland people. Highlanders in the British army wear their customary tartan. In conflicts since the "Jocks" have noticeably been the first into action for Britain and the last to leave. |
|
Major General William Augustus 'Butcher' Hanover, Duke of Cumberland Joshua Reynolds |
Died |
31 Jan 1788 |
Palazzo Muti, Rome (Roma), Lazio (Latium), Italy |
Buried |
St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City |
Person ID |
I1750120159 |
Red1st |
Last Modified |
31 Oct 2008 |
Father |
James Francis Edward'The Old Pretender' Stuart, Prince of Wales, b. 10 Jun 1688, St. James' Palace, Pall Mall, Westminster, Middlesex, England , d. 01 Jan 1766, Palazzo Muti, Rome (Roma), Lazio (Latium), Italy (Age 77 years) |
Mother |
Maria Klementyna (Clementina) Sobieska, b. 1702, Olawa (Ohlau), Lower Silesian, Poland , d. 1735, Rome (Roma), Lazio (Latium), Italy (Age 33 years) |
Family ID |
F672667175 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |