|
Search over 100 encyclopedias and dictionaries: |
Research categories | Follow us on Twitter |
Research categories
View all topics in the newsView all reference sources at Encyclopedia.com |
|||
|
Anniversaries
... Read more |
|
anniversary
... Read more |
|
Donald Cameron of Lochiel
Donald Cameron of Lochiel , 1695?-1748, Scottish clan chieftain, known as the Gentle Lochiel; grandson of Sir Ewen Cameron . He was the first of the major chieftains to join Charles Edward Stuart , Bonnie Prince Charlie, in the unsuccessful Jacobite uprising in 1745. He was wounded in the battles... Read more |
|
Lord George Murray
Lord George Murray 1694-1760, Scottish general. He took part in the risings of the Jacobites in 1715, 1719, and 1745. Although he foresaw the hopelessness of the 1745 uprising, he was one of Charles Edward Stuart's ablest commanders in the rebellion, serving him in the victory of Prestonpans and... Read more |
|
Richard Coeur de Lion
... Read more |
|
Bicentennial
BICENTENNIAL BICENTENNIAL. The 200th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence was the country's most broadly celebrated anniversary. Like the 1876 centennial, it followed a period of social tension that created an ominous backdrop for the event. The bicentennial represented,... Read more |
|
Battle of Hastenbeck
Hastenbeck, battle of, 1757. Cumberland, the hero of Culloden, commanded the Army of Observation in the Seven Years War, charged with the protection of Hanover. Frederick the Great, Britain's ally, was too hard pressed himself to offer assistance. On 26 July, on the Weser near Hameln, Cumberland... Read more |
|
Battle of Athenry
Athenry, battle of (10 Aug. 1316), one of the bloodiest battles in later medieval Ireland. It was fought at Athenry, Co. Galway, between the Anglo‐Irish of Connacht led by William Liath de Burgh, cousin of Richard de Burgh, the Red Earl, and a vast army of the Irish of Connacht and... Read more |
|
Fort Augustus
Fort Augustus, Scotland/UK Kilcumein/Cille Chuimein Originally named ‘Culmein's Church’ after Culmein, one of the followers of the charismatic St Columba (c.521–97), who was buried here. Developed in the 1730s around a military garrison established to help quell the Jacobite... Read more |
|
Culloden Moor
Culloden Moor , moorland, Highland, NE Scotland. There, on Apr. 16, 1746, English forces under the duke of Cumberland defeated the Highlanders under Prince Charles Edward Stuart, thus ending the Jacobite uprising of 1745 (see Jacobites ).... Read more |
|
|
Oliver's army AND THEIR Fight in Fife.(Features)
...the coming battle as lions led by donkeys...This was the Culloden of the South...fought. As for Culloden, nothing is...And while Culloden is a great...suppression and slaughter of Bonnie Prince...battle's ... |