Three Things You Should Know About The Jacobites

the day is the anniversary of Culloden the great and final Jacobite battle here at claudemir thousands were killed many more would going to die in the days and weeks after as the British forces swept through the Highlands but why is best pal so important we'll just scratch the surface in this video with three things you need to know over the Jacobites images of Jacobites is fantasy Laird's as foreign-born princes or clan chiefs is misleading for the most part they were just normal folk for normal towns and villages across the north of Scotland if you're male or female young or old and fair town like this then there's a great chance that you would have been out for Charlie what drove this book wasn't necessarily high ideals but hard reality the recent union with England and caused economic catastrophes all up and down the East Coast Scotland's friend and key trading partner France had been cut off becoming Britain's new enemy folk here turned to smuggling to make ends meet so when Bonnie Prince Charlie said he'd make Scotland independent and restart that vital trade with France folk here signed up in their hundreds just up the road there and breaking folk start producing pistols musket and swords two are madly we start to see across the north of Scotland and the popularly supported armed uprising for a brief moment in history the wee folk from small towns and villages all across the north of Scotland were right in the heart of European dynastic struggles and I think that's fascinating all across the north is Scotland the landscape is studded with stories over the Jacobites barely a GLAAD exist without cave or some Jacobite shelter or a village that contributed men to the cause Locke arcade is particularly enriched by Jacobite legacy after the Battle of Culloden all the unpaid wages of the soldiers was left in the highlands widow some of whose spent transfer meant other Rises but much of it was buried Jacobites were sent from the continent to collect the buried treasure but they were arrested and betrayed by the banks of law RK we know it's still out there because in the 1800's they found a great big bag of gold coins in the woods by the law in the 1990s and a 2016 major treasure search took place for they found nothing that means that whatever is out there is still out there just part of the Jacobite legacy in our landscape over 3,000 Jacobite soldiers survived Culloden and regathered at roughen a massive military fortress just safer here faintly their leader prince charles potential future king of scotland survived unhurt and looked like jacobitism which had survived many a setback before would live to fight again perhaps that's why the British were so ruthless in the aftermath this graveyard in the middle of Inverness is where the Jacobite prisoners were brought to be executed after the bath many were short here some so injured they had to be leant against grave stones and killed there this groove and this grave is where the executioner with Leia's musket to ensure a nice clean kill but why here why seven miles away for the battlefield well just across the river Ness is a big mansion where the British soldiers were recuperating after the battle they all lined the windows watched as their Jacobite enemies were executed one by one obviously I'm fast and in vilest on the impact the jacket is 'm higher there our language and our culture on things like the depopulation of the Highlands I genuinely believe that the more you understand Jacobite ISM then the more you understand the country that we've become today [Music]

Channel: BBC The Social

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Length: 4min 16sec (256 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 19 2019