Bonnie Prince Charlie
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Is This a Period of Difficult Politics?
Sir cumberland, the younger son of george secondand i think probably favorat son, he's rushed back to brittan with his forces. He was not the right person to combat a dynamic rising. And it's getting quite dynamic, because what happens after preston pan sub scotland is now sort of under jacobite control. Though amazingly, edinburgh castle holds out, doesn't it? It does hold out because fundamentally, it starts bombarding the city. The commander threatens to carry on doing that o the jacobites attempt to take it, so they pull back. So there are pin pricks which governments retain control. But scotland
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