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18th Century/News

Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Culloden battle hoard found

January 27, 2021
1 min read

The find is believed to have been part of an arms shipment that landed in Lochaber a fortnight after Bonnie Prince Charlie’s

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18th Century/News

George III’s military map collection released

March 5, 2020
1 min read

A collection of over 3,000 military maps, prints, and sketches belonging to the monarch has been released to mark the 200th anniversary

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18th Century/Cover Feature/Modern

Washington and Yorktown

December 12, 2019
3 mins read

George Washington earned a place in the pantheon of leaders who led both militarily and politically through the storms of revolution. Combining

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18th Century/Feature

The Battle of Prestonpans, 1745

September 20, 2019
4 mins read

Overshadowed by Culloden the following year – the battle that finally terminated the century-old Jacobite cause – Prestonpans is little known. Chris

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18th Century/Book Awards/Books

REVIEW – The British are coming: the war for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775 – 1777

July 15, 2019
6 mins read

With his description of the events at Portsmouth, Atkinson once again justifies a New York Times review of a previous volume which

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18th Century/Feature

Battle Royal: Charles XII of Sweden

September 18, 2018
5 mins read

Patrick Boniface on the deaths in combat of regal warriors. On 5 April 1697, the Swedish Prince Charles, also known as Carl,

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18th Century/19th Century/Feature/Modern/Napoleonic

Jane Austen: a wartime writer?

March 8, 2018
4 mins read

War and violence are the last things one would associate with that 19th-century doyenne of English literature, Jane Austen. Ambles in the

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18th Century/Early Modern/Feature

What really happened at the Battle of Culloden?

September 6, 2016
1 min read

  Culloden has been frequently presented as a battle fought by an incompetent, ill-equipped, and badly led Jacobite army wielding swords against superior, professional Redcoats armed with muskets.

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18th Century/Briefing Room/Early Modern/Feature

BRIEFING ROOM: Nader Shah

June 9, 2016
2 mins read
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Look at that bling – who was he? Hailed by historians as ‘a second Alexander’ and ‘the Napoleon of the East’, Nader Shah was

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18th Century/Early Modern/Feature

After Culloden: from rebels to Redcoats

April 22, 2016
3 mins read
15

Robbie MacNiven explores the fate of the Scots who survived Culloden. On a bitterly cold April afternoon in 1746, on moorland just

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