Battle of Prestonpans
1745 · Event
Guided through a marsh by a local sympathiser in the pre-dawn dark, the Highland charge breaks the government army in under fifteen minutes; its general, Cope, carries the news of his own defeat south. The rising is suddenly serious: London's markets wobble, and the Jacobite court dances in Holyrood.
On these timelines: The Forty-Five, Scotland, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
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