On this day in 1746, the Jacobite army of 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' was defeated by Hanoverian forces in the Battle of Culloden. This was the last battle on British soil. This was not a battle between Scotland and England but a civil war and the end of the Stuarts attempt to regain the throne of the United Kingdom.
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Peter Watkins made one of the first 'drama-documentaries' about this for the BBC in 1964. It's still worth watching.
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The last battle on British soil?
ReplyDeleteI read somewhere that the people who were on George's side were called Geordies and that's where the name of the dialect came from in northern England.
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