At this instant the Highlanders , who , unable to resist their plundering propensities , were dispersed over the field stripping the slain , mistook this retrograde movement for a flight , and , seized with a sudden panic , began to run ...
Author: James Paterson
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ISBN: NYPL:33433071388320
Category: Musselburgh (Scotland)
Page: 353
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So rapid was their flight , that the Highlanders , notwithstanding their nimbleness of foot , were unable to overtake them ; but General Ponsonby pursued them with the cavalry at full speed , and cutting into the centre of the column ...
Author: James Browne
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ISBN: HARVARD:HN2VUS
Category: Clans
Page: 540
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The Highlanders , who had been particularly enjoined not to fire until the army was within musket length of them ... threw them immediately into disorder , and carried the right wing of their army with them in their flight .
Author: Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
Publisher:
ISBN: UCAL:$B752593
Category: Cheshire (England)
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List of members in each volume.The Highlanders , who had been particularly enjoined not to fire until the army was within musket length of them ... threw them immediately into disorder , and carried the right wing of their army with them in their flight .
Author: Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
Publisher:
ISBN: PRNC:32101064990557
Category: Cheshire (England)
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List of members in each volume.The Clan Cameron having at this moment made an attack upon the English right , where there were only infantry , put it also to flight ; but the Highlanders , when descending the hill in pursuit of the enemy , received on their left ...
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ISBN: HARVARD:HXCQWW
Category: Jacobites
Page: 362
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“ The Highlanders , stretched on the ground , thrust their dirks into the bellies of the horses . ... an English cavalry officer advanced in front of his regiment , to catch one of the flying Highlanders who had come rather close to the ...
Author: James Logan
Publisher:
ISBN: COLUMBIA:1000227226
Category: Celts
Page: 528
View: 758
... the place was not abandoned.k In the disordered retreat at Culloden , an English cavalry officer advanced in front of his regiment , to catch one of the flying Highlanders who had come rather close to the line .
Author: James Logan
Publisher:
ISBN: BSB:BSB10280715
Category: Celts
Page: 384
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one of the flying Highlanders who had come rather close to the line . The fellow quickly brought him down with his broadsword , and having dispatched him , he deliberately stopped to take his watch , in front of a whole squadron of the ...
Author: James Logan
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ISBN: OXFORD:590612456
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Page:
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In the disordered retreat at Culloden , an English cavalry officer advanced in front of his regiment , to catch one of the flying Highlanders who had come rather close to the line . The fellow quickly brought him down with his ...
Author: James Logan
Publisher:
ISBN: ONB:+Z201487408
Category:
Page: 432
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Bestselling author Ken McGoogan tells the story of those courageous Scots who, ruthlessly evicted from their ancestral homelands, were sent to Canada in coffin ships, where they would battle hardship, hunger and even murderous persecution.
Author: Ken McGoogan
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 1443452602
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Page: 352
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Bestselling author Ken McGoogan tells the story of those courageous Scots who, ruthlessly evicted from their ancestral homelands, were sent to Canada in coffin ships, where they would battle hardship, hunger and even murderous persecution. After the Scottish Highlanders were decimated at the 1746 Battle of Culloden, the British government banned kilts and bagpipes and set out to destroy a clan system that for centuries had sustained a culture, a language and a unique way of life. The Clearances, or forcible evictions, began when landlords--among them traitorous clan chieftains--realized they could increase their incomes dramatically by driving out tenant farmers and dedicating their estates to sheep. Flight of the Highlanders: The Making of Canada intertwines two main narratives. The first is that of the Clearances themselves, during which some 200,000 Highlanders were driven--some of them burned out, others beaten unconscious--from lands occupied by their forefathers for hundreds of years. The second narrative focuses on resettlement. The refugees, frequently misled by false promises, battled impossible conditions wherever they arrived, from the forests of Nova Scotia to the winter barrens of northern Manitoba. Between the 1770s and the 1880s, tens of thousands of dispossessed and destitute Highlanders crossed the Atlantic --prototypes for the refugees we see arriving today from around the world. If today Canada is more welcoming to newcomers than most countries, it is at least partly because of the lingering influence of those unbreakable refugees. Together with their better-off brethren--the lawyers, educators, politicians and businessmen--those indomitable Highlanders were the making of Canada.