The find is believed to have been part of an arms shipment that landed in Lochaber a fortnight after Bonnie Prince Charlie’s…
A collection of over 3,000 military maps, prints, and sketches belonging to the monarch has been released to mark the 200th anniversary…
George Washington earned a place in the pantheon of leaders who led both militarily and politically through the storms of revolution. Combining…
Overshadowed by Culloden the following year – the battle that finally terminated the century-old Jacobite cause – Prestonpans is little known. Chris…
With his description of the events at Portsmouth, Atkinson once again justifies a New York Times review of a previous volume which…
Patrick Boniface on the deaths in combat of regal warriors. On 5 April 1697, the Swedish Prince Charles, also known as Carl,…
War and violence are the last things one would associate with that 19th-century doyenne of English literature, Jane Austen. Ambles in the…
Culloden has been frequently presented as a battle fought by an incompetent, ill-equipped, and badly led Jacobite army wielding swords against superior, professional Redcoats armed with muskets.…
Look at that bling – who was he? Hailed by historians as ‘a second Alexander’ and ‘the Napoleon of the East’, Nader Shah was…
Robbie MacNiven explores the fate of the Scots who survived Culloden. On a bitterly cold April afternoon in 1746, on moorland just…