Bonnie Prince Charlie Lands in Scotland

July 25, 1745

Charles Edward Stuart, grandson of James II, landed on Eriskay with seven companions and raised his standard at Glenfinnan. Highland clans rallied; Edinburgh fell; an English army was routed at Prestonpans. For a month the Pretender made his court at Holyrood. The last Jacobite rising had begun its brief, glamorous, catastrophic arc.