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|  | | THE JACOBITE REBELLION
In the summer of 1745, a young man in a small French frigate landed on the West Coast of Scotland. He had seven followers amongst his shipmates and took to the Highlands to raise an army from the Scottish clans:
“The Highland clans with sword in hand
Frae John o Groats tae Airlie
Hae tae a man declared to stand
Or fa wi Royal Charlie”.
Or so the old Jacobite song goes. But why was the latest scion of the Stuart dynasty such a favourite with the Scottish Highlanders? And did Bonnie Prince Charlie ever have a real chance of gaining the throne of England?
Contributors
Murray Pittock, Professor of English Literature at the University of Strathclyde
Stana Nenadic, Senior Lecturer in Social History at Edinburgh University
Allan Macinnes, Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at Aberdeen University
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