Stuart Reid

Cumberland's Culloden Army 1745-46 (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Embleton, Gerry

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In August 1745 Charles Edward Stuart, the 'Young Pretender', landed in Scotland and sparked the Second Jacobite Rising. The Jacobite forces seized Perth, then Edinburgh, where they proclaimed the Young Pretender's father King James VIII; they trounced their Hanoverian opponents at Prestonpans and crossed into England, getting as far south as Derby before withdrawing into Scotland. Far from universally popular north of the border, the Jacobite army bested another Hanoverian army at Falkirk and besieged Stirling, only to be routed by the Duke of Cumberland's army at Culloden in April 1746, a crushing defeat that ended any prospect of a Stuart restoration. Featuring full-colour artwork depicting the distinctive uniforms of Cumberland's men, this exhaustively researched study offers a wealth of detail of regimental strengths and casualties and includes an extended chronology that places individual units in specific places throughout the campaign that culminated at Culloden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782003052
• Artikelnr.: 44626733

Autorenporträt

Stuart Reid was born in Aberdeen in 1954 and is married with two sons. He has worked as a librarian and a professional soldier and his main focus of interest lies in the 18th and 19th centuries. This interest stems from having ancestors who served in the British Army and the East India Company and who fought at Culloden, Bunker Hill and even in the Texas Revolution. His books for Osprey include the highly acclaimed titles about King George's Army 1740-93 (Men-at-Arms 285, 289 and 292), and the British Redcoat 1740-1815 (Warrior 19 and 20).

Inhaltsangabe

Historical background
the British Army in 1745 /The Duke of Cumberland's army for the 1745
46 campaign: recruitment
regimental organization
the officers /Chronology: movements and marches
actions and casualties /The British Line: infantry
cavalry
artillery
marines /English provincial infantry: Harcourt's and Bolton's Regiments /English Line cavalry /English provincial cavalry: Georgia Rangers
Yorkshire Hunters
Kingston's Light Horse /Scottish infantry: 43rd Highlanders (Black Watch)
64th Highlanders
Edinburgh Provincial Regiment
Argyll Militia /Foreign units: Hanoverian hussar escort
Hessian grenadiers and hussars
Dutch grenadiers and artillery
Swiss infantry/ Bibliography /Index