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BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE
1720 - 1788
Bonnie Prince Charlie was Charles
Edward Louis Philip Casimir Stuart and his soup was usually cold by the time his mother was done calling him for dinner.
People also called him the Young
Chevalier, or Young Pretender.
Being of the royal
Stuart
family, Charles Edward too claimed the British throne.
Charlie was fighting in the
War of the Austrian Succession.
Bonnie Prince Charlie also led the Jacobite
Rebellion, which proved unsuccessful. The Jacobite
Rebellion was fought 1745 and 1746 and is not to be mixed up with
the
Jacobite War.
BATTLE OF CULLODEN - APRIL 16, 1746
April 16, 1746 - one of Charlie's darker days. At Culloden Moor,
about 6 miles or 10 kilometers east of Inverness, Charles met with
William Augustus, who was the duke of Cumberland, for a 40
minute battle. Big victory for the Cumberland man.
Charlie and his Jacobites had an army of
5,000 troops. William Augustus and the British Redcoats had an army
of 9,000 troops. Charlie lost 1,000 men, William 50.
The Battle of Culloden is also called
the Battle of Drummossie. because the Colloden Moor is part
of the Drummossie Moor.
The Battle of Culloden was the last
battle of the Forty-five Rebellion or the Jacobite
Rebellion.
With the help of Flora Macdonald
and other loyal friends, Charles managed to save his hide and escape
to France. That was in September 1746.
Bonnie Prince Charlie loved himself a
good bowl of booze and, maybe somehow related to this fact, became Scotland's hero.
And here is a map of Charlie's Raid into England 1745-1746
Map of
Bonnie Prince Charlie's Raid into England 1745-1746
Map of
the British Isles: Route of the Young Pretender (1745)
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