The Jacobite Rebellion (In Our Time)
1745 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discusses the Jacobite Rebellion. In the summer of 1745, a young man in a small French frigate landed on the West Coast of Scotland. It was Bonnie Prince Charlie who began his campaign to become king of Scotland and England. He had seven followers amongst his shipmates and took to the Highlands to raise an army from the Scottish clans
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Around 1745
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- US Constitution (1787)