Moresi1
Samuel Moresi
English 1001
Dr. Alice Blackwell
April 8, 2015
An Annotated Bibliography of the life of Archibald.
"Who Was Bonnie Prince Charlie?" Essortment.Essortment, n.d. Web. 02 Apr. 2015.
The article “Who Was Bonnie Prince Charlie” describes the life and death ofCharles Edward Stuart nicked named “bonnie prince Charlie”.Charles was born into the Stuart Dynasty in Rome, Italy on December 31st , 1720 . His father James II of England and the rest of the Stuart dynasty were exiled from the country in 1690 by the Dutch protestant, William III of Orange.
James Had a passion to bring England back into the Catholic Church so naturally his desire fell on toCharles hands. Charleswas brought up with the belief that the thrones in England and Scotland were inherently his and it was his divine right to seize them back. This led him in 1745 to venture out to Scotland after a failed attack on England to make his own campaign. While in Scotland Charles gaineda small following with a fewloyalist who sided that it was his divine right to take back the throne.
Commentary: This article gives important insight onto what drove bonnie prince Charlie to take back his father’s throne and the events leading up to his arrival in Scotland this article visualities what kind of man Charles would have been and some of the underlying reasons why Archibald would chose to fight for him.
Bennett, G. V. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. London: Royal Historical Society, 1982. Print.
Bennett looks at Jacobitism in a new light Bennet clams that many authors like to romanticize the rebellions to fit their own narrativeSimply put the Jacobite uprisings were fueled by widespread distrust and animositytowards the English government. Most of the soldiers wereMostly Scottish Highlanders but there were a few Irish. Bonnie prince Charlie took advantage of the situation the highlanders were facing and lead them to a series of rebellions and attempted invasions.
Commentary:Bennet did a great job filling in the blanks that past authors and historians left behind he gave an actual motivate for the rebellion and went into the geographic and cultural differences the areas face. He also mapped out were the rebellions occurred to give the reader a better understanding of its origins.
BBC News. BBC, n.d. Web. 06 Apr. 2015.
The BBC presents a veryhistorically conscienceaccount of The Battle of Culloden the BBC list the battle of Culloden as the laststand against the ancient royal dynasty and also as one of the last full-scale battles to take place on British soil. The article also marks the battle as a key point in where the ScottishHighlandersstarted to lose their culture.Some of the contributing factors to Jacobite’s loss at Cumberland were the fact that they were estimated to be out numbed 9000 to 6000 and the marshy ground left them unable to perform their favoritechargetactic.
Commentary: This article shows how slim Archibald’s chances of surveille would have been he would have surely been captured along with the other rebels and exiled to the colonies both him and his family would have been hunted down and tried as rebels against the union.