History of the Highlands: And of the Highland Clans. E-book. Formato PDF James Browne   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Warlike attitude of Great Britain and France - Prince Charles Stuart resolves to proceed to Scotland - Secrecy of his preparations - Departure of the Expedition - Naval Action - Other occurrences at Sea - Charles arrives off the Long Island - Lands, in Eriska - Interview between him and Macdonald of Boisdale - Arrives in Lochnagual - Interview with young Clanranald, who is sent on a mission to Sir Alexander Macdonald and the Laird of Macleod - Kinlochmoidart, Dr Cameron, and others, visit the Prince - Charles lands at Borodale - His reception there - Character of Cameron, younger of Lochiel - His interview with the Prince - Charles resolves to raise his Standard at Glenfinnin - Arrives at Kinlochmoidart - Commencement of hostilities - Arrival of Charles and the Camerons at Glenfinnin - Raises his Standard - Joined by the Macdonalds of Keppoch.Apathy of the Government - Proclamation by the Lords of the Regency - Intelligence of the Prince's arrival received at Edinburgh - Conduct of Macleod of Macleod - Contradictory reports at Edinburgh - Preparations of Sir John Cope - Leaves Edinburgh for Stilling - Marches to the North - Arrives at Dalwhinnie - Holds a council of War - Resolves to march to Inverness - Counter proclamation of Prince Charles - Marches from Glenfinnin - Crosses Corriearrack - Flight of Cope to Inverness - March of Charles to the South - Enters Athole - Arrives at Perth - Joined by Lord George Murray and others - Preparations made by Charles at Perth - Proceedings and alarm at Edinburgh - Association of Volunteers formed - Municipal intrigues.Departure of Charles from Perth - Crosses the Forth - Retreat of Gardiner's dragoons - The Prince arrives at Falkirk - Holds a council of war - Detachment sent to attack the dragoons, who retire to Kirkliston - Charles arrives at Corstorphine - Great alarm and confusion in Edinburgh - Mock heroism of the Edinburgh volunteers - Junction of Gardiner's and Hamilton's dragoons - Joined by the city-guard and Edinburgh regiment - Flight of the dragoons - Meeting of the magistrates and inhabitants of Edinburgh - Message from Prince Charles - Deputations from the city - Arrival oi Cope off Dunbar - Capture of Edinburgh by the Highlanders - Arrival of Charles at the Palace of Holyrood - The Chevalier de St George proclaimed at the cross by the heralds - Manifesto of the Prince - Cope lands his troops at Dunbar - Advances to Haddington and afterwards to Preston - Departure of the Prince from Edinburgh - Battle of Preston.

History of the Highlands: And of the Highland Clans; With an Extensive Selection From the Hitherto Inedited Stuart Papers. E-book. Formato PDF James Browne   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In offering to the public the following History of the Highlands and Highland Clans, which has so long occupied my attention, I think it right to state, without reserve, that the Work makes no pretensions whatever to original discovery, or novel speculation. Nothing is more easy than to hazard conjectures, invent theories, construct plausible hypotheses, and indulge in shadowy generalizations. In the regions of doubt and obscurity, there is always ample scope for the exercise of that barren ingenuity, which prefers the fanciful to the certain, and aims at the praise of originality by exciting surprise rather than producing conviction. My object has throughout been of a humbler, though, as I conceive, of a much more useful kind. I have sought to embrace, in this Work, the different branches of the subject of which it treats, and to render it a repertory of general information respecting all that relates to the Highlands of Scotland rather than a collection of critical disquisitions on disputed questions of history or tradition. How far I have succeeded in this object, or whether I have succeeded at all, is another and very different question, as to which the public alone are entitled to decide; and I am fully aware that, from their decision, whatever it may be, there lies no appeal. In any event, however, I shall console myself with the reflection that I have done somewhat to facilitate the labours of those who may come after me, by collecting and arranging a body of materials, the importance of which will be best appreciated by those who are the most intimately conversant with the subject.In reference to the History of the Clans, I have to acknowledge, and I do so with the greatest pleasure, my obligations to the work of the late Mr Donald Gregory, and more particularly to that of Mr W. F. Skene, in as far as it treats of the origin, descent, and affiliations of the different Highland tribes. Many of the opinions and views promulgated by the latter I have ventured to dispute, at the same time assigning the reasons which have led me to differ from him; but it must, nevertheless, be unequivocally admitted, that, without the benefit of his researches and those of his immediate predecessor, Mr Gregory, it would have been a task of no ordinary difficulty to compile even the faintest sketch of the History of the Highland Clans, far less to arrange it in any thing like a systematic form.

A History of the Highlands, and the Highland Clans: With an Extensive Selection From the Hitherto Inedited Stuart Papers. E-book. Formato PDF James Browne   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Amongst the many items set up by the English parliament against the claims of the Scots, there was one, according to Bishop Guthry, of sterling, for the cab bage the Scots had devoured t Lingard, vol. Vi. P. 556.