Some historians believe that the Hanoverian government forces could have been defeated at that time, but Charles Edward Stuart turned round and led his forces back into Scotland, where they were caught and defeated at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746. And it was at this point that they effectively lost their campaign. No-one had cared to advise us that the steam train was expected imminently!ĭuring the 1745 uprising, the Jacobites marched south into England, reaching Derby by early December. I did manage my photo of the viaduct from there, and just as we walked back to the Visitor Centre, we heard the steam train puffing its way through the station, where we had been no more than 20 minutes previously. It’s an extremely steep and tight stone spiral staircase up the monument, and you have to almost limbo dance to squeeze out through the manhole, that couldn’t have been more than 18 inches square.
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We did get tickets to climb the monument-maximum four people at a time plus the guide. When we arrived at the Glenfinnan visitor centre, I realized that I had seen the Glenfinnan Monument (that commemorates the raising of the standard) on a couple of previous occasions, but never in such weather. For all you Harry Potter fans, the steam train that runs on this West Highland line featured as The Hogwarts Express in several films. In fact I had wanted to make the 15 mile or so detour west of Fort William to see the Glenfinnan viaduct on the railway connecting Fort William and Mallaig. The weather was atrocious: driving rain and strong winds. Having made our trip counter-clockwise, we reached Glenfinnan on the penultimate day of our holiday. He raised his standard at Glenfinnan on the west coast of Scotland on 19 August 1745 in a bid to reclaim the throne for his father (The Old Pretender, James Francis Edward Stuart, son of deposed King James II, and accepted by many as the rightful heir) from the ‘usurper Hanoverians’.ĭuring our recent road trip round Scotland we came across a number of sites associated with Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 1745. It had a long-lasting impact on Scotland, particularly in the Highlands. Would there still be a Union? But he wasn’t successful, and this uprising ended with the last battle fought on British soil at Culloden in 1746.
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How would Britain as a nation and British society have evolved had the 1745-46 Jacobite Rising of the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie (or, to give him his full name: Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart, born 31 December 1720, died 31 January 1788) been successful. It’s one of the big ‘what ifs’ of British history.
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