Forty-five
See also: forty-five
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the Forty-five
- (historical) The Jacobite rising of 1745.
- 1893, Scottish Notes and Queries, p. 158:
- Kingshouse, in the Blackmount, and Finlarig Castle, at the west end of Loch Tay, were both garrisoned during the ’45.
- 2001, Arthur L. Herman, The Scottish Enlightenment, Harper Perennial 2006, p. 142:
- In the sharpest sense, the Forty-five was not a war between Scots and Englishmen, but a civil war.
- 2012, Andrew Lang, A Short History of Scotland:
- Space does not permit an account of the assimilation of Scotland to England in the years between the Forty-five and our own time […].
- 1893, Scottish Notes and Queries, p. 158: