Название: Cumberland’s Culloden Army 1745–46
Автор: Stuart Reid
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Серия: Men-at-Arms 483
ISBN: 978 1849088466
Год издания: 2012
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 50
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 3,3 MB
In August 1745 Charles Edward Stuart, the 'Young Pretender', landed in Scotland and sparked the Second Jacobite Rising. The Jacobite forces seized Perth, then Edinburgh, where they proclaimed the Young Pretender's father King James VIII; they trounced their Hanoverian opponents at Prestonpans and crossed into England, getting as far south as Derby before withdrawing into Scotland. Far from universally popular north of the border, the Jacobite army bested another Hanoverian army at Falkirk and besieged Stirling, only to be routed by the Duke of Cumberland's army at Culloden in April 1746, a crushing defeat that ended any prospect of a Stuart restoration.