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The Young Pretender: Że exiled Stuarts continued to claim the itish throne even after their abortive xllion of 1715. Their supporters, mostly >man Catholics, became known as Jacob-s, from the Latin name for James, :obus. The exiled James II died in 1701, iving his claim to his son James, known as e 'Old Pretender', but he failed to secure s support of the French. In 1745 James's son, Charles Edward, the oung Pretender', landed in Scotland with landful of followers.
The legend of Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart), the Young Pretender, and Flora Macdonald keeps alive the memory of the uprising of 1745-1746 and still survives as an impractical sentiment in some Highland families, easily reconcilable with fervent loyalty to the present queen, Elizabeth II.
The result was that the Jacobites in the west never rose at all, while those in the north surrendered at Preston after feeble resistance (Nov. 13, 1715). The titular James III arrived in Scotland on December 22, but all to no purpose. The rising collapsed (rather than being definitely crushed), and the pretender fled on Feb. 4, 1716.
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