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Raising of Standard

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

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Chronological records

1745

Charles Edward StewartAugust 1745

Glenfinnan · Warfare / Jacobite Rebellion

The Jacobite cause was still supported by many Highland clans, both Catholic and Protestant. Charles hoped for a warm welcome from these clans to start an insurgency by Jacobites throughout Britain. He raised his father's standard at Glenfinnan and gathered a force large enough to enable him to march on Edinburgh

Names involved

Charles Edward Stewart

Provenance

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