Comments on: Today In History: The Battle of Falkirk http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1165/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:22:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Brett http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1165/#comment-13485 Brett Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:20:12 +0000 http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1165/#comment-13485 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. 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.

]]> By: Charles Currie http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1165/#comment-13484 Charles Currie Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:07:58 +0000 http://www.gleefulgecko.com/archives/1165/#comment-13484 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. 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.

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