Bonnie Prince Charlie - A Wee Dram for a Wee Brain

[Alatriste]

I just had to post a rant that starts like this

Bonnie Prince Charlie is the Scotish endearment for the drunken imbecile who led the Highlanders to disaster, ruin and Canada

http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2007/01/

Funny the things you find on the Internets googling "Tsarina", "Pompadour", "Maria Theresa" and "hounds"...

[garbon]

[Alatriste]

I guessed as much, you are a bunch of damned closet Jacobites!!!   

[Scipio]

I guessed as much, you are a bunch of damned closet Jacobites!!!   

I think you mean Jacobins.

[Valmy]

I just had to post a rant that starts like this

That is actually a fairly witty article.  The Stuarts were a pretty miserable lot.

The Stuarts, the rulers of Scotland, always had a poor working relationship with England. James IV was killed in battle with the English. His son James V died in flight after a lost battle with the English. His granddaughter Mary was executed by the English. Ironically, when Elizabeth I died and had no heirs (one of the side effects of being a a Virgin Queen) the throne went to her distant cousin James VI of Scotland. Somehow, James avoided being killed by the English. However, his son Charles I didn't.

Hehe nice

I think you mean Jacobins.

Mort aux rois!

[Oexmelin]

I fail to see what Canada has got to do with Bonnie Prince Charlie, except as a theatre of battle during the France / GB wars of the 18th century.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I think the reasoning is that the '45 led to the Highland clearances and that the displaced Highlanders moved to Canada.

[garbon]

I guessed as much, you are a bunch of damned closet Jacobites!!!  

Well look what came next.

Anyway, I guess this is a history blog of catty history?

[Oexmelin]

I think the reasoning is that the '45 led to the Highland clearances and that the displaced Highlanders moved to Canada.

That is a bit lame... Even if one wants to make a direct link between the clearances and the jacobite rebellion, the Scottish emigration to Canada was quite late, and not much more in Canada than in the Anglo-American colonies and the United States. Canada existed before the Highland clearances; Halifax, founded in 1749, is not even peoples primarily with Scots and the regions the highlander colonized were even considered peripherical. The Scots who came with the invading British army as purveyors were Scots-Irish or business people, not quite die-hard jacobites -- apart perhaps for the Highlander regiments who participated in the conquest of Canada. But then again, they weren't the only ones.

[Alatriste]

I just had to post a rant that starts like this

That is actually a fairly witty article.  The Stuarts were a pretty miserable lot.

Perhaps 'rant' is not the proper therm. I posted the article because it was witty!

[Valmy]

Right I was agreeing with you.  There is just no pleasing some people.

[garbon]

And many are easily amused.

[Valmy]

And many are easily amused.

Being easily amused is a gift.

[garbon]

Being easily amused is a gift.

I'll take your word on that.