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Article: Could the Jacobites have won? (the 1745 military attempt of Bonnie Prince Charlie to restore the Stuarts to the English throne)
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- History Today
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- July 1, 1995
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On July 23rd, 1745, Charles Edward Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie, and the 'Seven Men of Moidart' reached Eriksay in the Western Isles of Scotland. On the afternoon of December 4th, 1745, en route for London, the now victorious prince entered Derby at the head of an army. Two days later, this force began its retreat to Scotland and on April 16th, 1746, it was crushed by the Duke of Cumberland on Culloden Moor. It was unclear to contemporaries whether the prince could have taken London had he pressed on from Derby or indeed had he followed a different strategy in 1745. This can be regarded as one of the great might-have-beens of history.
The '45 was the highpoint of a ...