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Felix O'Neille, French army captain, helping Prince Charles Edward Stuart escape the English. OVER THE SEA TO SKYE

https://t.co/xmyiIEScZ1

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2021-11-23

In August 1746 2 Jacobite lords, Balmerino & Kilmarnock were executed for supporting the 1745 rebellion:
Kilmarnock suffered 2 strokes; Balmerino 'one, and a little bit'

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2021-11-22

No point in attempting a witty caption, is simply not a thing

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2021-11-08

My latest painting of John Graham of Claverhouse, the Viscount Dundee, on the eve of his death at the Battle of Killiecrankie.

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2021-10-21

In 1715 the earl of Jersey was sent to the Tower for Jacobite plotting. He was set free by January 1716 & celebrated by not going to bed for a month & spending the last week of that living on brandy alone

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2021-09-28

The Mary White - a true story of a brave young woman set in the time of the Jacobite Rising of 1745, led by Bonnie Prince Charlie (pictured), war with France and political unrest in England. Mary's dream is to build a rescue boat that will save lives...

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2021-07-24

William Kent’s inclusion of the likeness of Maria Clementina Sokieska in the St Clement Dames altarpiece was not an isolated incident. She appears in Kent’s painting of ‘Architecture’ (with Jones) at Burlington House & as a bust painted by a putto at

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2021-07-05

Felix O'Neille, French army captain, helping Prince Charles Edward Stuart escape the English. OVER THE SEA TO SKYE

https://t.co/xmyiIEScZ1

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2021-05-19

Felix O'Neille, French army captain, helping Prince Charles Edward Stuart escape the English. OVER THE SEA TO SKYE

https://t.co/xmyiIEScZ1

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2021-05-15

Are you watching the online commemoration of the battle of Culloden?
discusses some of the background to today's talks and discussion https://t.co/D1V6gFWqY7

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2021-04-17

Hogarth's "March of the Guards to Finchley" was inspired by events he witnessed in 1745 & completed 4 yrs after Culloden. This & other images incl Ld Lovat & Calais Gate feature in Life in Progress out 1 July. Available to preorder

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2021-04-16

“The view of the Jacobites as quasi-colonial primitives is persistent […] The seriousness of Jacobitism is ignored because the power of the threat undermines the story of British unity.”
—Prof on “Whig History” &
https://t.co/qOsC1sR3nr

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2021-04-16

in 1746, 275 years ago, the Battle of Culloden took place. It was the last battle fought on British soil.

At about 1pm the Jacobite Army opened fire on Hanoverian troops.

In under an hour of battle, about 1,300 were killed and roughly 1,250 were Jacobites.

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2021-04-16

from Corgarff, Aberdeenshire 🗺️

Originally a noble residence, this medieval tower house became an army base for hunting down Jacobite sympathisers & later whisky smugglers - we're pretty sure *The Castle Ladies* have tales to tell.
https://t.co/mdy4bWtiF6

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2021-04-15

9 April 1747. The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat (Simon Fraser) was beheaded on Tower Hill, London. He was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain. He had been convicted of high treason in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

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2021-04-09

Flora MacDonald, Jacobite heroine, died in 1790.

After the Battle of Culloden in 1746, she helped Bonnie Prince Charlie evade government troops by famously dressing him as her her maid.

From our MacBean Jacobite print collection ➡️ https://t.co/xOUobGEPzA

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2021-03-06

Felix O'Neille, French army captain, helping Prince Charles Edward Stuart escape the English. OVER THE SEA TO SKYE

https://t.co/xmyiIEScZ1

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2021-01-16

Felix O'Neille, French army captain, helping Bonny Prince Charlie escape the English. OVER THE SEA TO SKYE

https://t.co/xmyiIEScZ1

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2020-12-11

Felix O'Neille, French army captain, helping Prince Charles Edward Stuart escape the English. OVER THE SEA TO SKYE

https://t.co/xmyiIEABAr

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2020-12-01

On this day 275 years ago in Preston 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' gave this gold locket and portrait of himself to Miss Pedder at a ball held in his honour.

He aimed restore the Stuarts to the throne, but retreated to Scotland a couple of weeks later.



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2020-11-28