Die tragische Gestalt des schottischen Prinzen Charles Edward Stuart faszinierte schon zu Lebzeiten die Gemüter seiner Mitmenschen. Gerade 24 Jahre alt ging er begleitet von einer Handvoll Getreuer an Bord eines kleinen französischen Schiffes und machte sich nach den Küsten Schottlands auf, um den Thron seiner Vorfahren zurückzugewinnen. Kein Unternehmen zu seiner Zeit war tollkühner ausgeführt, keines an Aussichtslosigkeit größer, und dennoch keines knapper gescheitert als seines. In diesem Buch schildert W. von Hassel die mitreißende Geschichte der Expedition des von seinen Anhängern liebevoll genannten "Bonnie Prince Charlie", vom unheilvollen Ende seines Traumes, und vom damaligen Scheitern des schottischen Freiheitskampfes.

Excerpt from History of the Rebellion in Scotland in 1745, 1746 James, sixth of Scotland and first of Eng land, was the common progenitor of the two families whose contentions for the throne of Great Britain form the subject of this work. He was succeeded, at his death, in 1625, by his eldest surviving son Charles. Charles I, after a reign of twenty-three years, the latter portion of which had been spent in war with a party of his subjects, perished on the scaffold in 1649. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.