Download or read book Away From Culloden written by ALEXANDER W.G. LOCKHART and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Away From Culloden: "A fictional account of the lives of the Brothers Angus and Hamish MacLean". Driven from their homeland in Scotland after the battle of Culloden in 1745, they are forced to travel in secrecy trying not to be caught by the English Army. After a horrific voyage across the great Atlantic our main characters find themselves in Albany New York and then make their way further into the fought over territories of the Great Mohawk river and beyond. We follow our main characters as they become landowners in their own right and follow their lives with keen interest. The characters reenact with inhabitants of the area which takes them to many challenges. With war looming around the corner between the French and English...we are swept away along the Mohawk river as the brothers contend with neighbors and friends. We hope with them for survival during the first attacks upon the settlers homes and along the frontier known as the Oniden Carry.
Download or read book Culloden written by Trevor Royle and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the English Royal Army. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English, the battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French invasion. In Trevor Royle's vivid and evocative narrative, we are drawn into the ranks, on both sides, alongside doomed Jacobites fighting fellow Scots dressed in the red coats of the Duke of Cumberland's Royal Army. And we meet the Duke himself, a skilled warrior who would gain notoriety due to the reprisals on Highland clans in the battle's aftermath. Royle also takes us beyond the battle as the men of the Royal Army, galvanized by its success at Culloden, expand dramatically and start to fight campaigns overseas in America and India in order to secure British interests; we see the revolutionary use of fighting techniques first implemented at Culloden; and the creation of professional fighting forces. Culloden changed the course of British history by ending all hope of the Stuarts reclaiming the throne, cementing Hanoverian rule and forming the bedrock for the creation of the British Empire. Royle's lively and provocative history looks afresh at the period and unveils its true significance, not only as the end of a struggle for the throne but the beginning of a new global power.
Download or read book Culloden written by Murray Pittock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite retreat from Derby several months before. But for all this, Culloden is a battle with great significance in British history. It was the last pitched battle on the soil of the British Isles to be fought with regular troops on both sides. It came to stand for the final defeat of the Jacobite cause. And it was the last domestic contestation of the Act of Union of 1707, the resolution of which propelled Great Britain to be the dominant world power for the next 150 years. If the battle itself was short, its aftermath was brutal - with the depredations of the Duke of Cumberland followed by a campaign to suppress the clan system and the Highland way of life. And its afterlife in the centuries since has been a fascinating one, pitting British Whig triumphalism against a growing romantic memorialization of the Jacobite cause. On both sides there has long been a tendency to regard the battle as a dramatic clash, between Highlander and Lowlander, Celt and Saxon, Catholic and Protestant, the old and the new. Yet, as this account of the battle and its long cultural afterlife suggests, while viewing Culloden in such a way might be rhetorically compelling, it is not necessarily good history.
Download or read book A Culloden Chronicle written by Irma Walker and published by Irma Walker. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This narrative traces Broad Cove/Culloden from the Loyalists’ arrival until the present century. The hamlet shares with many rocky coastal Nova Scotia settlements the experiences of the fisheries’ heydays and their demise, with all Nova Scotians: the arrival of the Scots and the Irish; effects of national and international events; the Great Depression; recovery and prosperity. Oral and written accounts paint both a colorful and a sensitive picture of Culloden’s past. A 1967 Centennial history enumerates villagers for a century and a 2005 visual history brings them and their world to life.
Download or read book Culloden written by John Prebble and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years the legend of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the black memory of Butcher Cumberland have blossomed side by side. Here, from memoirs, letters, newspapers and regimental order books, the author reconstructs the battle and the months that followed.
Download or read book The Scottish Jacobite Army 1745 46 written by Stuart Reid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most celebrated moments in Scottish history, the Jacobite Rising of 1745 is often romanticized. Drawing on the work of historians and a wide range of contemporary sources, Culloden expert Stuart Reid strips away the myths surrounding the events of the campaign, revealing some of the lesser known and fascinating truths about the Rising. Illustrated with contemporary sketches and meticulous full-colour reconstructions of dress and equipment, the raising of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's army is examined in detail from its organization in regiments and their command system, to its weapons, tactical strengths and weaknesses.
Download or read book Culloden and the Last Clansman written by James Hunter and published by Mainstream Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Colin Campbell's killing rocked eighteenth-century Britain and became the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel, Kidnapped. And ever since the fatal shot was fired, people have argued about who actually pulled the trigger."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Road to Culloden Moor written by Diana Preston and published by Constable Limited. This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to Culloden Moor and Story of the Battle written by Peter Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Monthly Epitome written by and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breaking Away written by Carol Kyros Walker and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Samuel Taylor Coleridge set out on a tour of Scotland with his friends William and Dorothy Wordsworth in the summer of 1803, his wits were as sharp as ever but his health, professional career, marriage, and friendship with William and his sister Dorothy were in a deteriorating state. On the fifteenth day of their travels, the Wordsworths and Coleridge parted ways, ostensibly so that Coleridge could return home. Instead he pursued his own Scottish tour, finding pleasure in his solitude, speed, and endurance. This book draws on Coleridge's letters and notebooks to look at his travels with the Wordsworths from his own point of view and to record and photograph the journey he experienced after he parted from them. Carol Kyros Walker, editor of Dorothy Wordsworth's own Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, now retraces Coleridge's very different Scottish tour and recounts his adventures there. In a remarkable photographic and literary essay, she argues that Coleridge's speed (263 miles in eight days), energy, reflections, notes, and letters all betray a man of great talent who was breaking away--from the Wordsworths, from his wife, from his life in the Lake District, and from a dry phase of his writing career.
Download or read book The Jacobite Challenge written by Eveline Cruickshanks and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Voyages written by Bradley Sheard and published by Aqua Quest Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a Tokyo in the not too distant future a young girl studies deligently with ambitions of soon attending space academy. If things work out just right, her future may very well be among the stars as well. And yet, every time she looks up to the stars there is a sense of melancholy in her heart. A sadness surrounds Asumi, as space exploration itself has profoundly impacted her life for as long as she can remember. But she is not alone...A young man wearing a lion's mask is always beside her. He speaks of the constellations and galaxies as if he they were like home. He knows what it is like to love the stars--slightly bitter and yet always so warm and inviting. Truth is he has gone through much of Asumi is just experiencing. And now in spirit he will forever be with Asumi guiding her on her path to space.
Download or read book The Jacobite Rebellion 1745 46 written by Gregory Fremont-Barnes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jacobite Rebellion was the final attempt of the House of Stuart to re-establish itself on the British throne and it saw the death throes of the independent martial prowess of the Highland clans. No event in British history has been more heavily romanticized, but Gregory Fremont-Barnes succeeds in stripping away the myths to reveal the key events of this crucial period. From questions of dynastic succession to religious dominance, the events leading to the Rebellion are carefully explained and analyzed, drawing upon a host of primary research. From the landing of Bonnie Prince Charlie to the battle of Culloden, this book offers a complete overview of the Rebellion, complete with detailed maps and beautiful period illustrations.
Download or read book The Ghosts of Culloden Moor Volume I written by L.L. Muir and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 79 Highlanders arose from their graves the day after the Battle of Culloden Moor. Nearly 300 years later, a young lass hopes to re-write history...Soncerae is a Muir Witch whose destiny is to save these Highland warriors who refuse to leave Culloden's hallowed, forever-bloody ground. She can win back their lives, but only for a time. And in that time, she hopes to prove that a heart's true desire can mean so much more than revenge.
Download or read book Dragonfly in Amber written by Diana Gabaldon and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland... For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his .... Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves....
Download or read book The Early Modern World written by Judith Kidd and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2000 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Heinemann History Scheme" uses sources and activities to explain complex issues and helps students think through historical concepts for themselves. Every QCA Scheme topic is covered, and the tasks offer progression and integrated extended writing for literacy skills.
