Bonnie Prince Charlie
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Last Significant City in Jacobite Controlled
The last significant city in jacobite controld, is there an element of prince charles not wanting to become a guorilla force, but wanting to maintain an army in the field with territory and a base of supply? Yes. And i think it's very important. Not enough good military history back colon - quite simply, charles's army was not, as i indicated earlier, quite as able to carry out guorilla campaigns as people might think. It had got its remaining supplies at imvenes. It needed to protect imbones as its base. It couldn't pay its troops, and it was in serious straits. People were not going to forage on
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