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Jacobite risings: Jacobite troops led by Charles Edward Stuart (pictured) defeated Hanoverian forces in Prestonpans, Scotland.
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17th to 18th-century British political ideology
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Jacobite pretender (1720–1788)
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Battle of Prestonpans
Battle in Scotland during the Jacobite rising of 1745
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European dynasty of German origin
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Prestonpans
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