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    The Battle of Prestonpans, also known as the Battle of Gladsmuir, was fought on 21 September 1745, near Prestonpans, in East Lothian, the first significant...
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    outside of town). Prestonpans is "Scotland's Mural Town", with many murals depicting local history. According to legend Prestonpans was founded in the...
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    several victories in the field, including the Battle of Prestonpans in September 1745 and the Battle of Falkirk Muir in January 1746. However, by April...
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  • Preston (1715) was a defeat for the rebels in the Jacobite Rising. Battle of Prestonpans 1745, a victory for the Jacobites over the British government in...
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    Highland charge (category History of the Scottish Highlands)
    for the patriot forces. Military history of Scotland Human wave attack Banzai charge Battle of Prestonpans (1745) Stevenson, David (1980). Alasdair MacColla...
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    winning the Battle of Prestonpans in September. At a council in October, the Scots agreed to invade England after Charles assured them of substantial...
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    met with the Jacobites under Charles Edward Stuart at the Battle of Prestonpans in the west of the county in September 1745, with the Jacobite side gaining...
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    The Battle of Prestonpans Tapestry 1745, or simply the Prestonpans Tapestry, is a large embroidery created in 2010 in Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland...
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  • Lord John Grey (character) (category Characters in American novels of the 20th century)
    soldier who chances upon Jamie and Claire Fraser on the eve of the Battle of Prestonpans. Recognizing Jamie as a wanted rebel and presuming Claire to...
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    James Gardiner (British Army officer) (category British military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
    was killed at the Battle of Prestonpans. Gardiner was born in Carriden, educated in Linlithgow, and joined the army at the age of fourteen. He served...
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    Fiction (redirect from Elements of fiction)
    from history, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and takes part in the Battle of Prestonpans. Some works of fiction are slightly or greatly re-imagined based on some...
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  • Sydney (June 11, 2016). "Outlander Team on the 'Tragic Loss' During Battle of Prestonpans". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 25, 2017. Dickie, Douglas...
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    Allan Breck Stewart (category Jacobite military personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745)
    enlisted in the British Army of George II in 1745, just before the Jacobite rising of that year. He fought at the Battle of Prestonpans, but deserted to the Jacobite...
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    Athelstaneford. His reputation rests on two Jacobite ballads on the Battle of Prestonpans, one of which, Hey, Johnnie Cope, are Ye Waking Yet?, whilst very far...
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    Exeter House (category History of Derby)
    of the prince was gifted to the Battle of Prestonpans [1745] Heritage Trust which displays it in the Museum & Jacobite Heritage Centre at Prestonpans...
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    Disarming Act 1715 (category Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain concerning Scotland)
    the Battle of Prestonpans. The main articles of the Disarming Act were further strengthened in the Act of Proscription 1746 following the defeat of Bonnie...
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  • win the Battle of Prestonpans. Jamie and Claire also adopt a young French boy named Claudel, whom Jamie renames Fergus. Before the Battle of Culloden...
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    returned to London at the end of August. The Jacobites defeated British forces in September at the Battle of Prestonpans, and then moved south into England...
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    Archaeology, David H. Caldwell. Summary of 2010 BBC Radio 4 program on early battle drawing, Bodleian MS. Eng. Misc. C.13 (R)/(30492) Battle of Prestonpans...
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    The Dictionary of Needlework. Crummy, Andrew (2010). The Prestonpans Tapestry 1745. Burke's Peerage & Gentry, for Battle of Prestonpans (1745) Heritage...
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  • gleaned by Jamie from this encounter helps the Highlanders win at the Battle of Prestonpans. Charles Stuart dispatches Jamie to convince his grandfather, Lord...
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    latter occasion the army of Bonnie Prince Charlie was encamped at Duddingston for a month prior to the battle of Prestonpans. The Sheep Heid Inn also...
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    and then defeating the only government army in Scotland at the Battle of Prestonpans. The Jacobite army marched into England, took Carlisle and advanced...
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  • companies fought at the Battle of Prestonpans in September, when the government army was swept aside in less than 20 minutes; most of the regiment was taken...
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  • "Prince Regent of Scotland", by Colonel Daniel O'Brien. The treaty came following the Jacobite victory at the Battle of Prestonpans, after which George...
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    Clan Murray (redirect from Murray of Atholl)
    Murray, was made Colonel of the 43rd Regiment of Foot (later the 42nd), in April, 1745. As a result, at the Battle of Prestonpans in September, 1745, there...
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    commemorates the Battle of Prestonpans. For the Black Watch, since the Crimean War, "Johnnie Cope" has been part of a sequence of pipe tunes played at an...
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  • of the Carpathian Basin Battle of Preston (1648) – Second English Civil War Battle of Preston (1715) – Jacobite rising of 1715 Battle of Prestonpans –...
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  • his younger brother, Lord John Grey, during the Battle of Prestonpans, and he sends Jamie home to die of his wounds. When the English scour the country...
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    Black Watch regiment of the British Army and he was captured at the Battle of Prestonpans by Jacobite forces. Mackintosh was sent home to Moy having been...
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