MDMD(8) Questions - Tunnels
Mark Smith
masmith at nmc.edu
Sat Sep 20 05:07:16 CDT 1997
S. Harrison wrote/quoted:
> The "45" involved a much larger
> rising of the Scottish Jacobite Highland chiefs under "Bonnie Prince
> Charlie," Charles Edward Stuart, whose army won several victories in
> Scotland and invaded England -- ruled at the time by George II -- only
> to be forced back and slaughtered at the battle of Culloden, effectively
> ending the Jacobite cause forever."
>
> No student of British history, I, but I'm willing to put a shiny new
> penny up against a pound avoirdupois of pig waste that TRP's "Young
> Pretender" is Bonnie Prince C, and will continue to do so until somebody
> more qualified than I (that is to say, anybody at all) gainsays it.
Yes, you are correct, sir. And, if I may add, in the aftermath of the
defeat in Culloden in 1745, there was an unholy reign of terror
throughout the Highlands. Executions, deaths in prisons and forced
transportations of entire highland villages followed. The pipes were
not heard for over forty years, the wearing of the tartan was forbidden
and entire estates were confiscated so that sheep could be grazed on
land that had once been home to families. Things have never been the
same.
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