Tour Scotland Video Battlefield Site Prestonpans East Lothian

Tour Scotland video of the Battlefied site on ancestry visit to Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland. A replica of the standard raised by Bonnie Prince Charlie at Glenfinnan in 1745 flying above the viewing platform overlooking the ground on which the Battle of Prestonpans was fought during the second Jacobite Rising. Its colours are the red, white and blue of the Stuart dynasty. This was the first significant conflict in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. The battle took place at 4 am on 21 September 1745. The Jacobite army loyal to James Francis Edward Stuart and led by his son Charles Edward Stuart defeated the government army loyal to the Hanoverian George II led by Sir John Cope.

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