Old photograph of General Wade's Bridge in Dalguise, Perthshire, Scotland. In 1725 Lieutenant General George Wade was appointed Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Forces in North Britain. Wade was charged with building a network of roads and bridges throughout the Scottish Highlands to aid the transport of men and equipment. King George II's government was rightly concerned about the possibility of another Jacobite uprising following the 1715 rebellion and wanted to make sure that military transport was as efficient as possible in case of another revolt. Over the next 15 years Wade oversaw the building of 250 miles of roads, the first engineered roads in Britain since the departure of the Romans in the early 5th century. To link those roads he also built over 40 bridges.
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