Jacobite rebellion

Write a six-page (or more) paper using the attached sources and argument, why did the Jacobite rebellion fail?

Part I

Question: Why did the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 Fail?

Statement: This essay will examine how the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 resulted in failure.

Part II

Six Primary Sources:

“Disarming Act – The National Archives”. 2020. The National Archives. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/jacobite-1745/9128-2/

This source is a transcript that contains information regarding the political alliances of the clans in Scotland during the time of the rebellion.

Forbes, Robert. Jacobite Memoirs of the Rebellion of 1745. United Kingdom: W. & R. Chambers, 1834.

This is a memoir of the insurgent Jacobite soldiers, retold by a witness.

Mackay, Angus. The Book of Mackay. United Kingdom: N. Macleod, 1906.

This source recants the Mackay clan’s allegiance and their role in the outcome at the Battle of Little Ferry

Drummond, Lord John. Declaration of War. The National Archives, 2020.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/jacobite-1745/jacobite-declaration-war/

This source is a printed transcript on the declaration of war on England by the Jacobite clans.

Carrington, N. “Battle Map of Culloden.” Map. Culloden Map. The National Archives, 2020.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/jacobite-1745/culloden-map/

The source is a physical map that showcases the layout of the battle ground at Culloden.

Tiffin, Joseph. Jacobite Soldiers on the March. 1745. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/jacobite-1745/jacobite-soldiers-march/.

This source is spy intelligence on the standings of the Jacobite Army.

Part III

Two Secondary Sources:

1. Plank, Geoffrey. Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.

Historian and Professor Geoffrey Plank produced this secondary source on the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745.

Szechi, Daniel. “Britain’s lost revolution and the historians.” In Britain’s lost revolution?. Manchester University Press, 2016.

Historian and Early Modern History Professor Daniel Szechi of University of Manchester produced this secondary source.

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