Apparently no English regiment lists Culloden among its battle honours - presumably because of the atrocities that followed the battle. I actually knew very little about Bonnie Prince Charlie - but it is a very interesting story - and almost more a European war than an Anglo-Scots one. Some of the locations in the book don`t look to have changed much - Canongate Tollhouse, which was used for some of the Jacobite prisoners, for example.
Great pictures. Edinburgh looks beautiful in Summer.
ReplyDeleteTook them on Saturday. THought I'd whet the appetite of anyone coming up for the festival season.
ReplyDeleteI`ve never been to the festival although I've visited Edinburgh about three times.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on a book part-set in Edinburgh at the time of the 1745-6 Jacobite Rebellion at the moment - not writing it I hasten to add.
That sounds like an interesting project. So many people (even in Scotland) think it was merely another Scots v The English barney.
ReplyDeleteApparently no English regiment lists Culloden among its battle honours - presumably because of the atrocities that followed the battle. I actually knew very little about Bonnie Prince Charlie - but it is a very interesting story - and almost more a European war than an Anglo-Scots one. Some of the locations in the book don`t look to have changed much - Canongate Tollhouse, which was used for some of the Jacobite prisoners, for example.
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