1745: A Military History Of The Last Jacobite Uprising Stuart Reid,
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 1885119283
DDC: 941
Edition: Hardcover; 1996-04-21
Summary:
The Jacobite Rising of 1745 has long since passed from history into
legend, and in the process the truth about what really happened
during those ten months has become entangled in romantic myth. Many
books have been published about the ’45, examining almost every
aspect of the political and dynastic struggle which it represented,
except the most important: the military campaign which decided the
outcome of that struggle once and for all. Stuart Reid’s rigorous new
analysis of the Highland resistance to British rule—drawing upon
years of primary research and walking the actual
battlefields—provides for the first time a properly balanced account
of the last military engagements to be fought on British soil.At the
heart of this study is a penetrating examination of the two armies
involved—their strengths, weaknesses, and very different tactical
doctrines. Weaving this thorough understanding of how those armies
fought into previously neglected eyewitness accounts with a detailed
examination of the ground on which the battles were fought, Stuart
Reid presents an important new contribution to eighteenth century
military history.
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