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Battle of Culloden

Everything contributed to make Culloden fatal to the fortunes of the Pretender. The discouragement of some of the clans, the disaffection of others,

The might-have-beens are indeed for the most part a vanity, but we can fairly venture to assert now that if Charles had pushed on he would, for the

The King of England had come back from Hanover; the troops were almost all recalled from Flanders.Continuing Battle of Culloden,our selection from

The battle of Prestonpans is enshrined in Jacobite memories as the battle of Gladsmuir.Continuing Battle of Culloden,our selection from History of

This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Bonnie Prince Charlie's Scotland Arrival.IntroductionWhen King James

It long remained a mystery why Charles I king of England consented to a stipulation which pledged him to resign so important a conquest. So France

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English attack Quebec; Quebec incapable of defense. Only fifty pounds of gunpowder were left in the magazine; and the fort, owing to the neglect and

England threw open her colonies to all who wished to enter, -- to the suffering and oppressed, the bold, active, and enterprising. France shut out