189. Culloden: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Last Stand

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Jack Davenport

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🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Few battles in history have been remembered as powerfully, nor been as mythologised, as Culloden on the 16th of April 1746. Under the leadership of Charles Edward Stuart - Bonnie Prince Charlie, ‘the Young Pretender’ - the Jacobites fight to the death upon Culloden Moor to place their own king on the British throne. Outgunned, outnumbered, the kilted swordsmen and musketeers took on the forces of the Hanoverian George II of England, in what would be the last battle fought on British soil. What would be their fate? In today’s episode, William and Anita are joined again by historian Jacqueline Riding to discuss the Battle of Culloden: one of the most cataclysmic battles in British history. To fill out the survey: survey.empirepoduk.com To buy William's book: https://coles-books.co.uk/the-golden-road-by-william-dalrymple-signed-edition Twitter: @Empirepoduk Email: [email protected] Goalhangerpodcasts.com Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett Producer: Callum Hill Exec Producer: Neil Fearn Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:15.1	W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and welcome to Empire.
0:33.2	We left the last episode on this cliffhanger with Charles Edward Stewart, Bonnie Prince Charlie at Glen Finan on the 19th of August 1745, with the
0:49.4	Scots clans massing around him and the sound of the pipes echoing through the
0:58.9	Scottish hills as the 45 what the English call the second Jacobite rebellion, breaks out in Scotland.
1:08.0	This is Empire Pod.
1:09.7	I am William Darimple.
1:10.7	I'm Anita Arnan.
1:12.0	Hello. And we are joined once again by I think an epic historian who just took us through a
1:17.6	great romp through some really complicated history Jacqueline Riding author of
1:22.1	Jacobites is here with us again and honestly you create such a
1:27.5	staring image of a young man let's not forget in his 20s who has been abandoned by the people who he should have been able to count on, the French,
1:36.4	who have been sort of meddling on tinkering with Jacobite uprisings in the past, but here he is
1:41.6	all alone buoyed up by this massive sound and this roar of fealty
1:46.4	from people who he's never met before arriving in full sort of Highland gear not the
1:52.2	kilts though I mean just describe what he what he looks like
1:54.7	what's he wearing because in the Victorian pictures he's in a kilt which wasn't even in its
1:59.0	modern sense invented it was invented by an Englishman in 1720s the Philly beg but he's not
2:06.5	wearing that he because he's got a ride a horse when he shifts his kit if he's
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