Today In History: The Battle of Falkirk
January 17th: Today in 1746 Scottish troops under the command of Charles Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) scored the last great victory of the Jacobites at the Battle of Falkirk. Three months later the Scottish* army was crushed at the Battle of Culloden and the Jacobite cause lost.
* see correction in comments. Commenter is correct.
January 18th, 2007 at 5:07 am
At the risk of being pedantic, I have to correct your Today in History for January 17th as the army commanded by Charles Edward Stuart was not a “Scottish” army, it was an army of Jacobite rebels trying to restore the Stuarts to the thrones of Scotland and England, fighting against the British government troops, drawn from Scotland and England, who supported King George.
The rebellion was a dynastic dispute not a battle between two countries.
January 18th, 2007 at 6:20 am
I accept your pedantry and acknowledge its accuracy. That write up was done in a bit of hurry. It is a fascinating campaign, until I read a recent account of the revolt I had no idea of how much a danger it actually presented to the Hanoverians. I had always assumed that it was a hopeless cause from the start, but it appears that it had a much better chance than I would have given it before reading further.