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Jacobites. The 1745 Rebellion

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Scotland, 1746. Your Jacobite army has been beaten!

While government soldiers search for Bonnie Prince Charlie, the ordinary people suffer.

Illustration of people in the Highlands

James MacDonald, Jacobite Soldier

Things have been terrible here since we lost the battle. The government are arresting and jailing people. Soldiers have been murdering injured Jacobite soldiers. They've even banned us from wearing tartan and playing bagpipes! Our way of life is at an end. Damn that Stuart Prince! He started all this trouble then just ran away and left us to suffer. He's a coward! He should stay in Italy where he's from! He's no Scotsman! He has no honour! I hope the government hangs him!


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Flora MacDonald

Yes, I helped Prince Charles escape to France. But I'm not a Jacobite – I was just giving help to a man who needed it. The government soldiers are everywhere and they're doing terrible things to ordinary people. Innocent people have been murdered! I'd help anyone to escape a fate like that! I've heard the soldiers are looking for me now because I helped the Prince. I'll be arrested and sent to prison. I don't care. I'd do it again. It was the Christian thing to do.


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James Ray, British Army Soldier

I'm not proud of some of the things that were done after the battle. A lot of innocent people were killed. But sometimes bad things have to happen for a good reason. We needed to be tough with these Jacobites. We don't want them to start another war. That would just mean more people had to die later. We killed a lot of injured men, I'll admit that. But what else could we do? Leave them to die slowly. It's better to kill them fast so that they don't suffer. That doesn't make us evil men.


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