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Flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie, The
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Flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie, The Hardcover - 2000

by DOUGLAS, Hugh and Michael J. Stead

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Phoenix Mill, Gloustershire: Sutton Publishing. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust wrapper. 2000. First British Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0750919892. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 190 pages; A new book with slightly rippled page edges. Dust wrapper has slight edgewear and rubbing. Profusely illustrated with colour and black and white photographs and maps, a lovely book.; ' In July of 1745 Prince Charles Edward Stuart, heir to the exiled Stuart dynasty, made landfall at Barra Head, the southernmost tip of the Outer Hebridesthe first time he had touched the soil of his native Scotlandready to claim the land he believed he had a divine right to rule. Within nine months his plans were crushed by the Hanoverians. With his defeat at Culloden, Prince Charles fled his homeland, hunted ruthlessly by the army of King George II. Yet the Scottish Jacobites who loved him aided Bonnie Prince Charlie at every turn of the five-month flight, hiding him, feeding himespecially Flora MacDonald, who disguised the young prince as her maid. Michael J. Stead's color photographs illustrate Charles' journey step-by-step.'. Catalogs: British History. Keywords: Charles Edward Stuart, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Scotland, History, Flora MacDonald, Skye, Scottish History.
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