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Siege of Stirling

Great Britain · Warfare / Jacobite Rebellion. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1746

Henry HawleyJanuary 1746

Stirling · Warfare / Jacobite Rebellion

Lieutenant General Henry Hawley led his troops from Edinburgh to relieve Blakeney. The Jacobite army was 8,000 strong, the largest assembled throughout the Rising. They were pitched against a regular Hanoverian army

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Henry Hawley

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