Rebellion and Savagery : : The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire / / Geoffrey Plank.
In the summer of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of England's King James II, landed on the western coast of Scotland intending to overthrow George II and restore the Stuart family to the throne. He gathered thousands of supporters, and the insurrection he led-the Jacobite Rising of 17...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 13 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. The Response to the Crisis
- 1. Rebellion: Criminal Prosecution and the Jacobite Soldiers
- 2. Savagery: Military Execution and the Inhabitants of the Highlands
- 3. The 1745 Crisis in the Empire
- Part II. Cumberland's Army and the World
- 4. Cumberland's Army in Scotland
- 5. Cumberland's Army in the Mediterranean
- 6. Cumberland's Army in North America
- Epilogue: Cumberland's Death and the End of the Officers' Careers
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments