🎧 The Jacobite Risings
🎧 Warfare • 20m
On 19 August 1745, the Jacobites engaged in the final of their five uprisings, stretching back to 1689. In this episode, Kelsey Ellington and James examine the Jacobite’s uprisings, their supporters and their opposition. Kelsey explains how Bonnie Prince Charlie Stuart and his supporters were hampered by difficult terrain, an exhausted army and division among the ranks, and how the Jacobite conflicts may not be cut along the national lines that they are often thought to have been.
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