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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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