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  LORD GEORGE MURRAY - LoveToKnow Article on LORD GEORGE MURRAY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
On the eve of the Jacobite rising of 1745 the duke of Perth made overtures to Lord George Murray on behalf of the Pretender; but even after the landing of Charles Edward in Scotland in July, accompanied by Tullibardine, Murrays attitude remained doubtful.
Here on the 5th of December a council was held at which Murray urged the necessity for retreat, owing to the failure of the English Jacobites to support the invasion and the absence of aid from France.
In April 1746 the Jacobite army was in the neighborhood of Inverness, and the prince decided to give battle to the duke of Cumberland.
50.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MU/MURRAY_LORD_GEORGE.htm   (1199 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 1746   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Battle of Culloden (April 16, 1746), was the last military clash in mainland Britain, between the forces of the Jacobites and those of the reigning Hanoverians in the 45 Jacobite Rising.
Henry Grattan (July 3, 1746 - June 6, 1820) was a member of the Irish House of Commons and a campaigner for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament in the late 18th century.
John Peter Zenger (October 26, 1697–July 28, 1746) was an American printer, publisher, editor and journalist whose indictment, trial and acquittal on sedition and libel charges (against the then Governor William Cosby of the New York Colony) in 1734 was an important contributing factor to the development of the...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1746   (2405 words)

  
 Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia: John Gorham (1709-1751).
Gorham was soon back in Boston and caught up in the plans which were then brewing to launch an attack against Louisbourg, a place, which to the English colonials, was a piratical and popish nest which had to be cleaned out, once and for all.
Gorham, Sr., was to die that winter;2 and Gorham, on the spot, was to succeed his father as the regimental commander.
During the summer of 1746 he was once again in Nova Scotia, this time with his 21 year old brother, Joseph who was commissioned to be a lieutenant in the Rangers.
www.blupete.com /Hist/BiosNS/1700-63/Gorham.htm   (1332 words)

  
 BBC - History - The '45 and the 'Young Pretender' 1745 - 1746   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The '45 and the 'Young Pretender' 1745 - 1746
1745 witnessed another Jacobite uprising aimed at restoring James Stuart to the throne.
The Battle of Culloden and its aftermath 1746
www.bbc.co.uk /history/timelines/britain/geo_young_pret.shtml   (267 words)

  
 Bonnie Prince Charlie
1746 After delivering the Prince, disguised as 'Betty Burke, an Irish lady's maid, safely to Portree, Flora Macdonald was arrested on her way back to her home in Armadale and taken on board Captain Ferguson's sloop, the Furnace - and later sent to the Tower of London, but released under the Act of Indemnity 1747.
1746 The Moidart Macdonalds had their property confiscated after Donald's execution and the Government retained it in its possession for the next forty one years, the commissioner being appointed to superintend being Butter of Faskally, a gentleman of Perthshire.
1746 What preoccupied the authorities about Catholics was less their religion than their politics and it is usually argued that penal legislation was maintained more as a deterrent against Jacobitism than as a means of extirpating the Catholic religion.
www.moidart.org.uk /datasets/bpc01.htm   (1943 words)

  
 Louisbourg Name Claims on the Web. Fact or Myth? (18th-Century), by Eric Krause (Krause House Info-Research Solutions), ...
She was detained in the service until Feb. 3, 1746, when she sailed from Louisbourg for New London, but foundered at sea on the home trip.
He was a midshipman at the siege of Louisbourg in 1745...
Foster, having fought in the siege of Louisbourg in 1745...
fortress.uccb.ns.ca /search/LsbgNameClaims.html   (900 words)

  
 Tingewick Families - twkg108 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Sarah Looseley on 12 Aug 1745 in Tingewick.
Rosa Harold on 5 Jun 1746 in Tingewick.
Benjamin Durrant on 5 Jun 1746 in Tingewick.
website.lineone.net /~tingewick_history/twkg108.htm   (170 words)

  
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A letter to a certain foreign minister, in which the grounds of the present war are truly stated: the conduct of the last administration in regard to foreign affairs fully vindicated, and the terms of a safe and honourable peace clearly pointed out.
The sentiments of a Dutch patriot: being the speech of *** in an august assembly on the present state of affairs, and the resolution necessary at this juncture to be taken for the safety of the Republick.
Being an enquiry into the conduct of Captain Richard Norris, in the engagement between the English fleet, under the command of Admiral Mathews, and the united fleet of French and Spaniards in the Mediterranean, on the 11th of February, 1743.
www.history.uiuc.edu /fac_dir/lynn_dir/guide/austrian.html   (3335 words)

  
 Adventures in CyberSound: van Musschenbroek, Pieter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Before 1745, Bose of Germany had the idea of drawing sparks or electrical fire from water in a glass vessel that was electrified, but nothing ever resulted other than an idea.
In their attempts of November 1745 to produce sparks and flashes by friction that Gilbert, von Guericke, Hauksbee, and Dufay had previously done experimentally, professors Petrus (Pieter) Musschenbroek and Jean Allamand of the University of Leyden and friend Cunaeus experimented with a glass jar connected to an friction electrical machine.
In April 1746, Musschenbroek's experiment was presented to members of the Paris Aacademy by Reaumur.
www.acmi.net.au /AIC/VAN_MUSSCHENBROEK_BIO.html   (1804 words)

  
 In Search Of The French Grenadiers
A royal ordonnance of the 15th September 1745 created 103 battalions of provincial militia; each battalion was composed of 8 companies of fusiliers (each of 70 men) and one company of 50 grenadiers, giving a total of 610 men, serving for six years.
The ordonnance of the 10th of April 1745 detached the companies of grenadiers from the battalions of militia and formed seven regiments (one battalion each) of grenadiers royaux (royal grenadiers), named after their colonels.
In 1745 the ministry of d'Argenson imposed a minimum of two battalions to a regiment which resulted in the suppression of 18 regiments of infantry (a regiment was formed of 12 companies of fusiliers and 1 company of grenadiers).
www.magweb.com /sample/s7yw/s7y91fr.htm   (2022 words)

  
 WHKMLA : Scotland : The Jacobite Rebellion, 1745
WHKMLA : Scotland : The Jacobite Rebellion, 1745
They were intercepted by a British naval vessel, H.M.S. Lion, which damaged one of the two ships to such an extent that it had to return to France.
Clearly outnumbering their opponents, they pursued the withdrawing Jaconites and defeated them in the Battle of Culloden (April 16th 1746).
www.zum.de /whkmla/military/18cen/jacobites1745.html   (394 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Waverley (Penguin English Library): Books: Walter Scott,Andrew Hook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Set during the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, this novel springs from Scott's childhood recollections and his desire to preserve in writing the features of life in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland.
By creating a fictional character and inserting him into the middle of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, Walter Scott was able to bring the culture and traditions of Scotland to life in the most staid bourgeois imagination.
The key event to Waverley is the colorful Jacobite rebellion of 1745, where Bonnie Prince Charlie, the last of the Stuarts, landed on Scottish shores to reclaim the English throne from King George II.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140430717?v=glance   (3212 words)

  
 Find in a Library: 1745 : a military history of the last Jacobite rising
1745 : a military history of the last Jacobite rising
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www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/44f881e0253eb858a19afeb4da09e526.html   (53 words)

  
 Edinburgh University New College Library: Brainerd's Journal
The second is held by the Connecticut Historical Society and covers the events between June 1745 and June 1746, only a small part of which is in Brainerd's hand.
Norman Pettit in his edition of Jonathan Edwards' Life of David Brainerd argues that the Connecticut manuscript is a copy of a journal that Brainerd sent to Scotland in 1745, although the manuscript continues to 1746.
It is not in Brainerd's hand and the date on which the copy was made is not clear although it is a counterpart of the 1746 published Journal.
www.mundus.ac.uk /cats/2/61.htm   (723 words)

  
 Proven genealogy of Alva Freeman Burnham - pafg06 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Maria SYMONS was born 18 Mar 1745/1746 in Ashford, Windham, CT. She died 1800.
Nathan HUNTLEY was born 2 Jun 1726 in Lyme, New London, CT. He died 30 Apr 1798 in Marlow, Hillsborough, NH and was buried in Baker's Corner, Marlow, Hillsborough, NH.
Lucy SMITH was born 25 Mar 1729 in Lyme, New London, CT. She died 25 Mar 1802 in Marlow, Hillsborough, NH and was buried in Baker's Corner, Marlow, Hillsborough, NH.
www.burnhamclan.org /ancestor/pafg06.htm   (746 words)

  
 Master Database - allg305 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
May have married in Bath county, VA William Given, a son of John and Mary Margaret (Sitlington) Given, was born in Augusta County VA March 21, 1746 and died on Jackson River in VA September 29, 1793.
Anne had at least four children by her 1st marriage and at least 6 children by her marriage to Capt. Robert Bratton who was a Captain of Foot in the French and Indian Wars, and maintained that rank the remainder of his life, serving in the VA state militia.
They were married on 18 Jun 1745 in Augusta County, Va. They were married on 18 Jun 1745 in Augusta County, Va. Anne was born in 1723 in Scotland.
www.member-webroots.org /deadrelatives/allg305.htm   (5131 words)

  
 The Daily Journals, Diaries, Letters, and Accounts of Louisbourg and Isle Royale (1713-1768)
Louisbourg in 1745: The Anonymous Lettre d'un Habitant de Louisbourg (Cape Breton) containing a Narrative by an Eye-Witness of the Siege in 1745 (Toronto: Warwick Bro's and Rutter, 1897).
This was published in London in 1746 under the title An accurate Journal and Account of the Proceedings of the New England Land-Forces during the Late Expedition against the French Settlements on Cape Breton to the time of the Surrender of Louisbourg.
Originally published in London in 1745 it was reprinted in Boston in 1847 as A Boston Merchant of 1745; or Incidents in the Life of James Gibson.
fortress.uccb.ns.ca /search/LsbgJournals.html   (11531 words)

  
 MHS | William Pepperrell Papers, 1664-1782 : Guide to the Microfilm Edition
This collection consists of the papers of William Pepperrell, Maine merchant and commander of the American forces on the expedition to Louisbourg on Cape Breton, N.S. (1745) during King George's War.
The papers of William Pepperrell, commander of the Louisbourg expedition during King George's War, range from 1664-1782, with the bulk spanning 1745-1746.
The papers document the 1745 expedition against the French at Louisbourg, and include military orders and reports, regiment lists, returns, correspondence regarding strategies, commission and discharge requests, accounts of payments and receipts from soldiers, reports on supplies, receipts and invoices on provisions.
www.masshist.org /findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0054   (663 words)

  
 1745
In the beginning of November, BF made a brief visit (probably journeying overland, rather than risk being captured at sea) to New York where he no doubt primarily spent time with his printing partner James Parker, and was evidently gone for about ten days.
BF said that the assembly session in January prevented him from starting the philosophical magazine (P 3:57), and Bartram explained (7 April) that the war efforts had put a stop to their proceedings.
The Albany Treaty of October 1745 revealed disunity between the colonies: Pennsylvania wanted the Six Nations to be neutral; New York and Massachusetts wanted them to go to war against the French.
www.english.udel.edu /lemay/franklin/1745.html   (6486 words)

  
 Colonial Wars: King George's War 1739-1748
Buffington, Arthur H. "The Canada Expedition of 1746: Its Relation to British Politics." American Historical Review, 45 (April 1940), pp.
"Benjamin Cleves's Journal of the Expedition to Louisbourg, 1745." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 66 (April 1912), pp.
Westgate, Alice L. "Sailors in the Louisbourg Expedition of 1745." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 59 (April 1905), pp.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/Reference/colon/george.htm   (960 words)

  
 The Story of Bonnie Prince Charlie's Scottish Journey on Video by Albavision
On 19th August 1745, in an attempt to regain the throne for the House of Stuart, Prince Charles Edward, son of the exiled James III, raised his father's standard at Glenfinnan.
He was joined by 700 Camerons and 300 Macdonalds, and this marked the beginning of what is known as the '45 Jacobite Rebellion.
Although the army of Highland clansmen rose to around 9000 at one time and they marched to within 130 miles of London, the rising ended in a devasting defeat at Culloden Moor on 16th April 1746.
www.scotland-info.co.uk /charlie.htm   (400 words)

  
 Hoards & Finds
The authenticity of a drachm of Tigranes II also gives rise to doubts, although a drachm of Artabanus II (Sellwood 1971, 63/6) is authentic.
Armenia 1945 (IGCH 1746) - A hoard from the village of Sarnakunk discovered in Armenia in 1945, containing silver coins of the Roman Republic, Seleucia, Parthia, cities of Phoenicia, Armenia, Cappadocia, Pontus, Alexander the Great and some cistophori, is described.
Crawford hoards 246 and 455 contain Parthian coins in IGCH 1745, 1746.
www.parthia.com /parthia_hoards.htm   (2404 words)

  
 Douglas, Francis, History of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Douglas, Francis, History of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746
[Douglas, Francis.] The history of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746, extracted from the Scots Magazine: with an appendix, containing an account of the trials of the rebels; the Pretender and his son's declarations, &c.
Aberdeen: printed by and for F. Douglass and W. Murray; sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes (London); by the booksellers of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Perth and Montrose, and by the said F. Douglass and W. Murray at Aberdeen, 1755.
www.polybiblio.com /ximenes/B4786.html   (223 words)

  
 Jacobite Rebellion
As a confederation of living historians, we come together each year to recreate this period in history and bring it to life for ourselves and the general public.
The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion weekend each spring has become the premier Scottish Living History event in North America.
ALL portrayals by groups or individuals must be related to known participants in Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, either as recreations of actual people from the events or as a well-researched interpretation of a type of person involved.
www.macfarlanescompany.org /guidelines/purpose.html   (409 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Waverley (English Library): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Set against the backdrop of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Waverley depicts the story of Edward Waverley, an idealistic daydreamer whose loyalty to his regiment is threatened when they are sent to the Scottish Highlands.
When he finds himself drawn to the charismatic chieftain Fergus Mac-Ivor and his beautiful sister Flora, their ardent loyalty to Prince Charles Edward Stuart appeals to Waverley's romantic nature and he allies himself with their cause - a move that proves highly dangerous for the young officer.
The original historical novel -fictional characters placed into an actual historical landscape, taking part in real historical events - this is set during the jacobite uprising in 1745, where we follow the adventures of Waverly as he travels up into the mystical highlands of Scotland.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140430717   (533 words)

  
 Ancestors of Betty Verrall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Christened: 1 Nov 1745, St. Thomas in the Cliffe, Lewes, East Sussex
Buried: 3 Apr 1746, St. Thomas in the Cliffe, Lewes, East Sussex
Text: Betty Daughter of George and Elizabeth Verral born October 25th and baptized November 1st, 1745.
members.fortunecity.com /bobmorris/1022.htm   (84 words)

  
 Scottish History in Print: Published Documents Search Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Two letters from Magdalen Pringle written during the occupation of Edinburgh by the prince, September-October 1745.
An account of the prince's escape from Scotland in 1746 based on Ascanius; or the young adventurer, which was first printed London 1746.]
Also her accounts written in 1789 of her part in the escape of Prince Charles, 1746, and of her and her family's sufferings as loyalists in the American War of Independence.]
www.nls.uk /print/search/indx/indx.cfm?key=17.22   (174 words)

  
 Guide to the Maurepas collection, 1694-1749
Correspondence from October 25, 1745 - January 17, 1746.
Correspondence from December 10, 1746 - December 29, 1747.
Of special interest: Maurepas' memorandum on the state of the Navy in 1745; the marquise de Mézières' plan for invasion of England; Fournier's report on losses in French commerce during years of war with England and the consequent need for strong trade; proposal for a new method of fighting enemies at sea.
rmc.library.cornell.edu /EAD/htmldocs/RMM04614.html   (2525 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Diary of Isaac Knap of Newbury: In the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England.
Duke of Richmond to the Duke of Newcastle, Goodwood, September 18, 1745.
Louisbourg 1745 - With remarks upon the weather.
collections.ic.gc.ca /mclennan/biblio.htm   (3490 words)

  
 Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746
The Battle of Culloden and its aftermath 1746 (BBC Timelines)
Highland Dress Proscription, 1746 (Sgian Dhu Interactive Clans and Tartans of Scotland)
Jacobite Risings, 1715 and 1745 (TNA Research Guides: Domestic Records Information 21)
www.regiments.org /wars/18thcent/45Stuart.htm   (346 words)

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