Jacobites Quotes

“O’Sullivan immediately proposed that the army form into companies of fifty men each, commanded by a captain supported by one lieutenant and four sergeants. But, sadly, this ‘cou’d not be followed, they must go by tribes ; such a chife of a tribe had sixty men, another thirty, another twenty, more or lesse ; they wou’d not mix nor seperat, & wou’d have double officers, [that] is two Captns, & two Lts, to each Company, strong or weak. That’, O’Sullivan pithily observed, ‘was uselesse.’ This irregular, clan-focused arrangement was both a strength and a weakness of this embryonic army.”
― Jacqueline Riding, Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion

“The more radical presbyterians (known as Covenanters, derisively nicknamed ‘whiggamores’ or ‘cattle drivers’ from where the term ‘Whig’ probably derives) had refused to support the reintroduction of Episcopalianism, while many Presbyterian families (such as the Forbeses of Culloden), during the seventeenth-century civil wars, had supported the Parliamentarians against Charles I, and then Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth: as a result all had suffered greatly at the hands of Charles II and then James VII after the restoration of the monarchy.”
― Jacqueline Riding, Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion

“Captain Edmund Burt, an English military engineer, observed in the late 1720s that the Highlands were so little known to Lowlanders, that they have ever dreaded the Difficulties and Dangers of Travelling among the Mountains; and when some extraordinary Occasion has obliged any one of them to such a Progress, he has, generally speaking, made his Testament before he set out, as though he were ent[e]ring upon a long and dangerous Sea Voyage, wherein it was very doubtful if he should ever return.8”
― Jacqueline Riding, Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion

“It is depressingly familiar that a British government, which had everything to gain from showing gratitude to its loyal friends in the Highlands, chose instead to display such disregard and even distrust. In fact, regardless of their loyalty, within the British government (specifically the English contingent), there was a singular lack of trust in the Scots in general. Forbes must have hoped that sense, gratitude and even honour would this time prevail. The”
― Jacqueline Riding, Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion

“I shall chuse to leave my bones among you.’ In”
― Jacqueline Riding, Jacobites: A New History of the '45 Rebellion