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Memorial cairn to Ewan Macpherson of Cluny - a very capable Jacobite officer who fought with distinction at the skirmish at Clifton near Penrith, and Falkirk. After Culloden he helped to hide Prince Charles Edward, distributed the gold that he...

Site of the final battle of the 1689 Rising on 1 May 1690. The Jacobite force of 1,500 was surprised in its camps at dawn by a larger government force and forced to flee. The Jacobites may have lost up...

The grave of the Jacobite heroine who died in 1790 is in the cemetery at Kilmuir, Skye. It is clearly marked by a large nineteenth century Celtic cross.

This narrow pass was the site of the only battle of the 1719 uprising. On 10 June 1719 a Jacobite force of over 1000 men with a few hundred Spanish regular troops tried unsuccessfully to stop the advance of a...

This beautiful glen is the site of the infamous massacre of 13 February 1692. Soldiers of the Earl of Argyll's Regiment turned on their MacDonald hosts in an action designed to set an example to others who were slow to...

Site of a battle between pro-government Highlanders and Jacobite sympathisers from Aberdeen on 23 December 1745. The Highlanders, forced into a fighting retreat through the main street of the town, were defeated by the larger Jacobite force. A cairn with...

The “Quai de la Fosse”, also known as the “Quai des Irlandais”, is located on the north bank of the Loire at the entrance to the city of Nantes. This was the quarter which, in the 18th century, was the...

Cairn erected by the 1745 Association adjacent to the site of the original row of seven beech trees planted in the 19th century representing the seven followers who landed in Loch Moidart in July 1745 with Prince Charles Edward Stuart.