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Jacobite Rebellion

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Jacobite Rebellion
n
the Brit History
1. (Historical Terms) the unsuccessful Jacobite rising of 1715 led by James Francis Edward Stuart
2. (Historical Terms) the last Jacobite rising (1745-46) led by Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, which after initial successes was crushed at Culloden


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Significantly, Scott subtitled that work 'Tis Sixty rears Hence, a reference to the 1745 Jacobite rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the vain attempt to reclaim the British throne for the Stuarts.
The dances tend to commemorate island events, such as the circling of roosters before combat, the heated protests against the closing and consolidation of small island schools, or hopping about from island to island during the second Jacobite Rebellion (1745) in order to catch up with Bonnie Prince Charles, who fled for his life in a rowboat, dressed as the national heroine Flora Macdonald's Irish maid.
These reached a climax with the unsuccessful Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, launched around the charismatic figure of Bonny Prince Charlie and ending with the Battle of Culloden.
 
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