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of rum, cheese and crackers. For months, others land to Derby. For a while, they sent London into
believed to be Jacobite sympathizers were hunted an uproar by the prospect that they soon could
down by the British in the forbidding Highlands of overtake the capital, as they had done earlier in
Scotland. Edinburgh and Carlisle before retreating.
An ineffectual military leader, Bonnie Prince
Charlie fled to the Scottish isles, and then back to Still remembered today, the Jacobites marched
France in September 1746, his aspiration to take behind Charles Stuart, "pretender" to the British
the crown finally crushed. He died in 1788 and is throne, who ventured from France to Scotland to
buried in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Some challenge the Hanoverian King George II. Stuart
today portray him as a tragic hero. was Catholic, the King was Protestant, one of the
Lasting just over an hour, the battle was a rout. divisions bringing the conflict. The visitors center
The Jacobite army of about 5,500 suffered losses quickly dispels the notion that the Uprising, how-
of 1,500 to 2,000, including those lost in a ruthless ever, was a conflict between the English and Scots.
campaign to pursue them after the battle was lost. Scots, including Highland clansmen, fought on both
The British losses -- 50 dead. sides, as did Catholics and Protestants. As the
Yet, the Jacobites earlier had proved to be a American Civil War, brother sometimes found him-
feared force, winning previous battles in Scotland self battling brother. And many of the soldiers had
in Prestonpans and Falkirk, and macching into Eng- been conscripted, some days earlier, without any

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