Cumberland’s Culloden Army 1745–46

Cumberland’s Culloden Army 1745–46 cover

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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.

Youngest son of Britain's Hanoverian king George II, the victorious general was lauded by his supporters while being reviled by his opponents as 'Butcher' Cumberland. His polyglot army, the subject of this book, included English regular Line infantry, cavalry, artillery, marines, and Scottish infantry (more Scots served on King George's side than followed 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'); English and Scottish 'provincial' infantry and cavalry regiments; and Hanoverian, Hessian, Dutch and Swiss infantry, cavalry and artillery.

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.

Table of Contents

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

Product details

Published Oct 23 2012
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 48
ISBN 9781849088466
Imprint Osprey Publishing
Illustrations 40 b/w; 8 col
Dimensions 10 x 7 inches
Series Men-at-Arms
Short code MAA 483
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Stuart Reid

Stuart Reid was born in Aberdeen in 1954 and is ma…

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Gerry Embleton

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