Jacobite Rising

The Jacobite rising of 1745 was the attempt by 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' (Charles Edward Stuart - the Young Pretender), to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart. He landed on the isle of Eriskay, Scotland, on 23 July 1745. Following victory at Prestonpans his Jacobite army marched south to Carlisle in England. His army advanced as far as Derby before being forced to retreat north to Inverness. The last battle in Scotland was fought at Culloden where the Jacobites were defeated and Bonnie Prince Charlie fled with a bounty on his head, before finally sailing to France.