The Jacobite Rebellions in Scotland

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Tour Includes

4 nights' accommodation with Scottish breakfast
4 evening meals
Specialist Historical Guide
Historical visits as described
Please note entrance fees to museums and places of interest are at extra cost
Travel by executive coach

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The story of the Jacobite rising of 1689-1746 is steeped in myth. Frequently and wrongly presented as a series of Scottish rebellions against the British, the Jacobite cause was, in fact, a nationwide, indeed a continental movement aimed at putting Catholic Stewarts back on the British throne following the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688, which had brought in the Protestant William and Mary. Allowing the mind to wander among the mist-enshrouded hills and glens it is easy to imagine a picture of remote fortresses besieged by wild clansmen robed in tartan plaid, of columns of redcoats marching through sheets of rain of fearsome highland charges and savage battle. Romance aside, there is much truth in all of this. The first rising, in 1689, though was, in fact, a short lived Scottish civil war. Of the subsequent insurrections against the united British Government, that of 1745 came closest to achieving the aim of the Jacobite cause but ended in its devastating defeat and dreadful reprisals. Meeting in Edinburgh, Dr Michael Jones will trace the story of the 1745 rebellion through some of its major Scottish battlefields, visiting also some sites of earlier events.

Meet at Edinburgh Waverly Station at 13.00 or Edinburgh Airport at 13.45hrs. We will then visit Prestonpans, scene of the first major Jacobite victory in September 1745. Continue to Stirling for a 2-night stay. Group dinner and Introductory talk.

Includes Dinner

We visit the scene of the battle of Falkirk, January 1746, where the Jacobites, on their withdrawal from England, again defeated a pursuing Government army. Later, we take a tour of Stirling Castle. Group dinner.

Includes Breakfast

Includes Dinner

Following one of General Wade’s military roads we drive through the Grampian Highlands, visit a reconstructed 18th century highland village and Ruthven Barracks, then on to Inverness for a two-night stay. Group Dinner.

Includes Breakfast

Includes Dinner

Explore the Culloden battlefield, scene of the final military defeat of the Jacobite cause, then we visit Fort George, built to defend the approaches to Inverness. Group Dinner.

Includes Breakfast

Includes Dinner

We visit the battlefields of Killiecrankie and Dunkeld, scene of two of the principal battles of the 1689 Rising before returning to Edinburgh Waverly and the Airport between 4.00pm to 5.00pm.

Includes Breakfast

Prices are per person, based on two sharing.

Extras: optional excursions; entrance fees to museums and places of interest; single room supplement £210; travel insurance from £19.50.

Your tour is led by Specialist Historical Guide Dr. Michael Jones who developed his love of history at Bristol University, and his interests range from the Middle Ages to the Second World War. He is the author of Bosworth 1485 - Psychology of a Battle and a battlefield guide to Agincourt. He has been guiding tours for over 20 years and his particular interest is in battlefield psychology.