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Prince's Cairn
The Prince's Cairn marks the traditional spot from where Prince Charles Edward Stuart embarked for France from Scotland on 20 September 1746 following the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1745. The cairn is located on the shores of Loch nan Uamh in Lochaber. It was erected in 1956 by th1745 Association a historical society dedicated to the study, recording and preservation of memories from the Jacobite period. Although the cairn commemorates the final departure of the Prince before his exile to France, Loch nan Uamh is also where the Young Pretender first stepped ashore on mainland Great Britain on 25 July 1745 and from where – in April 1746 – he escaped to the Hebrides after the defeat of his forces at the Battle of Culloden. Monument On the morning of 4 October 1956, the 1745 Association held a ceremony to unveil the cairn that marked the traditional spot where Bonnie Prince Charlie departed for France. More than 200 people gathered on the small promontory by the sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sound Of Arisaig
The Sound of Arisaig Lochaber, Scotland, separates the Arisaig peninsula to the north from the Moidart peninsula to the south. At the eastern, landward end, the sound is divided by Ardnish into two sea lochs. Loch nan Uamh lies to the north of Ardnish, Loch Ailort to the south. There are a number of small islands in the sound, of which Eilean nan Gobhar and Samalaman Island, both near to Glenuig on the south shore, are the largest. The A830 road, called the Road to the Isles, runs along the east end of Loch Ailort, and then crosses Ardnish before turning westwards along the north shore of Loch nan Uamh and the sound proper. The West Highland Line follows the same route. The A861 road follows the south shore of Loch Ailort and the sound proper as far west as Glenuig. The Prince's Cairn, marking the spot where Bonnie Prince Charlie finally left Scotland after the unsuccessful Jacobite rising of 1745, on 20 September 1746, overlooks Loch nan Uamh. The sound is a marine Special Are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arisaig
Arisaig ( gd, Àrasaig) is a village in Lochaber, Inverness-shire. It lies south of Mallaig on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, within the Rough Bounds. Arisaig is also the traditional name for part of the surrounding peninsula south of Loch Morar, extending east to Moidart. Etymologically, Arisaig means "safe bay". It lies in the Scottish council area of Highland and has a population of about 300. Prehistory Realignment of a 6 km section of the A830 road in Arisaig led to archaeological investigations in 2000–2001 by the Centre for Field Archaeology (CFA), the University of Edinburgh, and Headland Archaeology Ltd, which found a Bronze Age kerb cairn, turf buildings and shieling huts. The shielings were repeatedly reused through the medieval and post-medieval periods, but themselves were on top of Bronze Age remains. Analysis of peat cores has revealed a history of continuous, but gradual decline in woodland, starting in about 3200 BC and continuing to the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slave Trader
The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and Slavery and religion, religions from Ancient history, ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of enslaved people have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. Slavery has been found in some hunter-gatherer populations, particularly as hereditary slavery, but the conditions of agriculture with increasing social and economic complexity offer greater opportunity for mass chattel slavery. Slavery was already institutionalized by the time the first civilizations emerged (such as Sumer in Mesopotamia, which dates back as far as 3500 BC). Slavery features in the Mesopotamian ''Code of Hammurabi'' (c. 1750 BC), which refers to it as an established institution. Slavery was widespread in the ancient world in Europe, Asia, Middle East, and Africa. It became less common thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Walsh
Antoine Vincent Walsh (1703 – 1763), was an Irish shipowner and slave trader operating in Nantes, France, whose family were exiled Jacobites. Early life Antoine Walsh was the son of the Jacobite loyalist Philip Walsh (1666-1708), of Ballynacooly, County Kilkenny, a Waterford merchant, who settled in Saint Malo, Brittany, after the Treaty of Limerick in 1691, and who would die at sea on an African voyage. Philip Walsh married in 1695, at Saint Malo, Anne White (1675-1727), who was also an Irish Catholic exile. It was Philip who had conveyed the defeated James II of England from Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland to Saint Malo, Brittany, France, in 1690, after the Battle of the Boyne, thus starting the Walsh family's loyal connections to the exiled House of Stuart in France. Antoine was born on the 22 January, 1703, in Saint Malo, Brittany, France. After serving in the French Navy, he settled in Nantes, which had emerged as the France's chief slaving port; where he found advantage in it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Du Teillay (1744 Ship)
''Du Teillay'' was a French privateer ship, commissioned as such in Nantes in 1744 by Antoine Walsh (1703–1763), a shipowner of Irish descent born in Saint-Malo and slave trader operating from Nantes in the south of Brittany. She played a central role in the Jacobite rising of 1745, ferrying Charles Edward Stuart to Loch Nan Uamh with supplies and funds to support his cause. Career She saw action on the 9 July 1745 (according to the old style date, or 20 July 1745 according to the act of 1750 adopting the new Gregorian calendar), when she accompanied by the ship ‘Elizabeth’ (L'Elisabeth) she was fired upon by HMS Lion. The Du Teillay at the time was carrying Charles to Scotland. Prince Charles had boarded the French ship on 2 July 1745 (New style date) and left Saint-Nazaire on the 3 July 1745 (New style date) bound for Loch Nan Uamh. They were joined by a French escort ship the ‘Elizabeth’ on the island of Belle-Ile of the south-west coast of Brittany, but not unti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beasdale Railway Station
, symbol_location = gb , symbol = rail , image = Beasdale Station May 2012 - geograph.org.uk - 2955243.jpg , caption = The station seen in 2012 , borough = Glen Beasdale, Highland , country = Scotland , coordinates = , grid_name = Grid reference , grid_position = , manager = ScotRail , platforms = 1 , code = BSL , original = Mallaig Extension Railway of West Highland Railway , pregroup = North British Railway , postgroup = LNER , years = 1 April 1901 , events = Station openedButt (1995) , years1 = 6 September 1965 , events1 = became public station , mpassengers = , footnotes = Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road Beasdale railway station is a railway station serving Glen Beasdale in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, sited from the former Banavie Junction, between Lochailort and Arisaig. ScotRail manage the station and operate all services. History It was originally a private station for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road To The Isles
The A830, also known as the Road to the Isles (though it forms only a part of the historic route) is a major road in Lochaber, Scottish Highlands. It connects the town of Fort William to the port of Mallaig. Route The A830 is 46 miles long. Throughout its length, the road follows the route of the West Highland Line from Fort William to Mallaig. It starts at a junction on the A82 north of Fort William and immediately crosses the River Lochy over the Victoria Bridge. The road passes through several small settlements, including Corpach, Glenfinnan and Arisaig and bypasses the village of Morar. It also follows the shorelines of Loch Eil and Loch Eilt, and passes between a series of several glens between these. The road ends at the quayside in the port of Mallaig adjacent to the railway station with onward ferry services to the isles of Muck, Eigg, Rùm, Canna, Skye and South Uist, and a ferry across to the neighbouring peninsula at Inverie which although on the mainland has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A830 Road
The A830, also known as the Road to the Isles (though it forms only a part of the historic route) is a major road in Lochaber, Scottish Highlands. It connects the town of Fort William to the port of Mallaig. Route The A830 is 46 miles long. Throughout its length, the road follows the route of the West Highland Line from Fort William to Mallaig. It starts at a junction on the A82 north of Fort William and immediately crosses the River Lochy over the Victoria Bridge. The road passes through several small settlements, including Corpach, Glenfinnan and Arisaig and bypasses the village of Morar. It also follows the shorelines of Loch Eil and Loch Eilt, and passes between a series of several glens between these. The road ends at the quayside in the port of Mallaig adjacent to the railway station with onward ferry services to the isles of Muck, Eigg, Rùm, Canna, Skye and South Uist, and a ferry across to the neighbouring peninsula at Inverie which although on the mainland ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as both Irish and Manx, developed out of Old Irish. It became a distinct spoken language sometime in the 13th century in the Middle Irish period, although a common literary language was shared by the Gaels of both Ireland and Scotland until well into the 17th century. Most of modern Scotland was once Gaelic-speaking, as evidenced especially by Gaelic-language place names. In the 2011 census of Scotland, 57,375 people (1.1% of the Scottish population aged over 3 years old) reported being able to speak Gaelic, 1,275 fewer than in 2001. The highest percentages of Gaelic speakers were in the Outer Hebrides. Nevertheless, there is a language revival, and the number of speakers of the language under age 20 did not decrease between the 2001 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Nevis
Ben Nevis ( ; gd, Beinn Nibheis ) is the highest mountain in Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ..., the United Kingdom and the British Isles. The summit is above sea level and is the highest land in any direction for . Ben Nevis stands at the western end of the Grampian Mountains (Scotland), Grampian Mountains in the Scottish Highlands, Highland region of Lochaber, close to the town of Fort William, Highland, Fort William. The mountain is a popular destination, attracting an estimated 130,000 ascents a year, around three-quarters of which use the Mountain Track from Glen Nevis. The cliffs of the north face are among the highest in Scotland, providing classic scrambling, scrambles and rock climbing, rock climbs of all difficulties for climbers and mountain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Alder
Ben Alder ( gd, Beinn Eallair) is the highest mountain in the remote area of the Scottish Highlands between Loch Ericht and Glen Spean. It rises to , making it the 25th highest Munro. The vast summit plateau is home of one of Britain's highest bodies of standing water, Lochan a' Garbh Coire. Climbing Sitting 19 km from Dalwhinnie and 15 km from Corrour railway station, it is commonly climbed in a two-day expedition, usually taking in its lower neighbour, Beinn Bheoil. There are two bothies near the mountain: Culra Lodge (closed due to asbestos contamination) to the northeast and Ben Alder Cottage to the south, both potentially providing shelter for walkers in the area. Ben Alder Cottage is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of a ghillie who hanged himself from the rafters. The "Man with no Name" A man's body was found near the top of Ben Alder in June 1996, at the edge of a cliff face, overlooking a lochan, his heart pierced by an old-fashioned lead ball bullet. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewen MacPherson Of Cluny
Ewen MacPherson of Cluny, also known as "Cluny Macpherson" (11 February 1706 – 30 January 1764), was the Chief of Clan MacPherson during the Jacobite Rising of 1745. He took part as a leading supporter of Prince Charles Edward Stuart. After the rebellion was crushed, he went into hiding and eventually escaped to France. He was the uncle of poet James Macpherson, who collected, translated, and adapted the epic poem '' Ossian'', based upon the Fenian Cycle of Celtic mythology. Early life Ewan MacPherson (called Cluny) was born on 11 February 1706. He was the first-born son of Lachlan MacPherson of Nuide (1674-1746). His mother was Jean Cameron, daughter of Sir Ewan Cameron of Lochiel. Cluny grew up to be a respected individual. His father-in-law, Lord Lovat, described him as "a thorrow good natur'd, even temper'd, honest gentleman". Physically he was described as "of a low stature, very square, and a dark brown complection". Clan MacPherson The territory of the Clan MacPher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
