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Charles Edward Stuart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the Second Jacobite Rising.
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Jacobite pretender (1720–1788)
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Derby
City in Derbyshire, England
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Jacobite rising of 1745
Attempt by the House of Stuart to regain the British throne
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