| T H E J A C O B I T E R E B E L L I O N .Come boat me o'er, come row me o'er,Come boat
| T H E J A C O B I T E R E B E L L I O N .Come boat me o'er, come row me o'er,Come boat me o'er tae Charlie;I’ll gie John Ross anither bawbeeTae ferry me o'er tae Charlie.We’ll o'er the water, we’ll o'er the sea,We’ll o'er the water to Charlie;Come weel, come woe, we’ll gather and goAnd live or die wi Charlie.I lo'e weel my Charlie’s name,Tho some there be abhor him:But O, to see auld Nick gaun hame,And Charlie’s faes be ore him!I swear and vow by moon and stars,And sun that shines so early!If I had twenty thousand lives,I’d die as aft for Charlie.Aince I had sons but now I hae nane,I bred them toiling sairly;And I wad bear them a againAnd lose them a for Charlie.Lyrics by Robert Burns.The Jacobite rising of 1745 was the attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart. The rising occurred during the War of the Austrian Succession when most of the British Army was on the European continent. Charles Edward Stuart, commonly known as “Bonnie Prince Charlie” or “the Young Pretender”, sailed to Scotland and raised the Jacobite standard at Glenfinnan in the Scottish Highlands, where he was supported by a gathering of Highland clansmen. The march south began with an initial victory at Prestonpansnear Edinburgh. The Jacobite army, now in bold spirits, marched onwards to Carlisle, over the border in England. When it reached Derby, some British divisions were recalled from the Continent and the Jacobite army retreated north to Inverness where the last battle on Scottish soil took place on a nearby moor at Culloden. The Battle of Culloden ended with the final defeat of the Jacobite cause, and with Charles Edward Stuart fleeing with a price on his head, before finally sailing to France. [x] -- source link
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