The Battle of Glenshiel: the Jacobite rising in 1719

"The Battle of Glenshiel- the Jacobite Rising of 1719- was fought on 10 June 1719, during the long daylight hours of a summer evening in the mountainous western Highlands of Scotland. Glenshiel was the main and decisive engagement of the 1719 Jacobite Rising, the fourth attempt by supporters in...

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1. Verfasser: Worton, Jonathan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Karte
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Warwick, England Helion & Company 2018
Schriftenreihe:Century of the soldier - warfare c.1618-1721 No. 35
Schlagworte:
Zusammenfassung:"The Battle of Glenshiel- the Jacobite Rising of 1719- was fought on 10 June 1719, during the long daylight hours of a summer evening in the mountainous western Highlands of Scotland. Glenshiel was the main and decisive engagement of the 1719 Jacobite Rising, the fourth attempt by supporters in Scotland to restore the exiled house of Stuart to the throne of the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. This book takes a new view of the subject. The background and course of the Rising is considered in detail, making use of published and archival sources to reconstruct the likely course of events. Chapters on the leading figures, and on the opposing armed forces, place the Battle of Glenshiel within the contexts of the Jacobite period, and of early eighteenth-century European warfare"--
Beschreibung:xii, 223 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, Portraits 25 cm
ISBN:9781912174973

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