Bonnie Prince Charlie
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Is the Battle of Coloden a Scotland-England Match Up?
The battle was widely viewed as a scotland, england conflict. The people of glasgow were pretty unwilling to provide support and succor for the jacobite army. There are not more scots who fight in the british army at colodn than on his side. We have the muster rolls, but they 're clearly quite a lot of scots who oppose him. But it's not a dynastic conflict. It's a constitutional conflict which has dynastic elements. That's why it's still very powerful reverberating myth history to this day.
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