Scottish Coin Pack - Charles Edward Stuart

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Charles Edward Stuart, (1720 - 1788). Bonnies Prince Charlie Silver Medal, issued in Paris.

Obverse: depicts Prince Charles Edward Stuart with the title of Prince of Wales. Below is the date 1745, the year he landed in Scotland in an attempt to regain the throne.

Reverse: shows Britannia waiting for the arrival of the Prince.

Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, was the son of James Edward Stuart, and was known as Bonnie Prince Charlie. In 1745 he landed in Scotland and began, at Glenfinnan, the fifth and last Jacobite rising. The Jacobite risings, in 1689, 1708, 1715 and 1745 were attempts to restore the exiled Stuart family to the throne of Great Britain. Supporters of the Stuarts were called Jacobiltes from Jacobus, the Latin form of James. In the last rising, Charles Edward rallied the Catholic and Episcopalian clans and defeated the Government army of King George II at the battle of Prestonpans in September 1745. He then led an army of about 5,000 into England, but receiving no further support, returned to Scotland. It was in the Highlands of Scotland in 1746, on Drummossie Moor (known as Culloden) that Prince Charles Edward Stuart's army was defeated by the Government under the Duke of Cumberland. After this defeat, those Highlanders who had risen up were not allowed to bear arms, to use their tartans, or to wear traditional dress. Charles Edward escaped after the battle and lived in France but later died in Rome, drunken and dissolute. 

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