History - Plan of action for Jacobite commemoration
Photo by Tony Marsh
Plan of action for Jacobite commemoration
by Scott Aitken
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series of activities to mark the 275th anniversary of the battle of Prestonpans and the 300th anniversary of the birth of Bonnie Prince Charlie are set to take place in East Lothian this autumn.
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The planned programme of events has been adjusted to ensure it will meet social distancing guidelines and will be amended as public health rules change. Other aspects of the anniversary year will also now take place in 2021. The Battle of Prestonpans on 21 September 1745 was the first
major battle of the last Jacobite Rising. An army loyal to King James Francis Edward Stuart and led by his son Charles Edward Stuart, alias Bonnie Prince Charlie, achieved a dramatic victory over the Redcoat army loyal to the Hanoverian king, George II, which was led by Sir John Cope.
