So Bonnie Prince Charlie led the rebellion to claim the throne for the Catholic Stuarts exiled in Rome, where Charles was born, he was also half Polish. What is not known is, in fact, they actually triumphed considerably at Prestonpans where they took over the country of Scotland, after lighting the fiery cross which was a message to the chiefs that there was going to be a war. Actually the general of the Jacobites, Lord George Murray was in fact Protestant. They recruited a Manchester regiment, but they left before they traversed back to Inverness. One of the great feats of Culloden, despite having thousands of men slaughtered and losing, was the triumph of Ghillies MacBean, who was six feet four inches, the tallest Jacobite in the ranks, smote down 13 government soldiers single-handedly at Culloden with his basket-hilt broadsword before being bayoneted to death.
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