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Remembering fought on this day in 1746.
The Culloden Widow (cut paper collage)

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2022-04-17

16 April 1746. Loyalist forces of George II defeated the Jacobites, supported by French troops, who wanted to restore the Stuarts to the British throne, at the Battle of Culloden. After the battle, many highland traditions were banned.

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2022-04-16

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

“The Ghosts of Culloden” this was my piece in the End is Nigh show at it was such a blast to be apart of this.

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2021-11-02

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

April 16, 1746
Battle of Culloden 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
End of the Highland way of life....💔

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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

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

Thanks a lot to my patrons for helping me pick one amongst my other options:

Pre-Culloden Highlander fighting the English.

Circassian in the russo-circassian war, somewhere between 1763 and 1864.

Underground Railroad agent protecting fleeing slaves in 1850 antebellum USA.

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2021-03-02

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

02x01- Through A Glass, Darkly

Who won? Who won the Battle of Culloden?

Season 2 let’s go 🥲🥲

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2020-12-13

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