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An armed uprising. A conspiracy. An assassination. A hanging. These events, starting with the crushing of Jacobite rebels at Culloden in 1746 and culminating six years later in the so-called Appin Murder, provided Robert Louis Stevenson with the plot of his enduringly popular novel Kidnapped. But truth can be every bit as dramatic as fiction. And never more so than in this account of what lay behind the killing of government officer Colin Campbell by a hidden gunman on a May afternoon in 1752.
Campbell was on his way to evict rebels from the Ardshiel estate near Appin, and Britain's rulers saw in his murder a terrorist act committed by Jacobite survivors of Culloden. When the alleged killer evaded a Scotland-wide manhunt and escaped abroad, politicians insisted someone had to pay for Campbell's death.The sacrificial lamb was James Stewart, a Culloden veteran who had been organising resistance to Campbell's evictions. James was found guilty in the show trial that followed and was hanged close to the murder scene. His body was left suspended there for years as a grim warning to anyone else thinking of challenging the new order the British state had imposed on the Jacobite Highlands.
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James Hunter is the author of a number of books on Scottish history, including Scottish Exodus, A Dance Called America and Skye: The Island. He lives in Beauly, Inverness-shire.
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James Hunter lays before the reader an inspiring account of the life of James Of The Glen, an unsung hero. Besides his use of documented historical source materials, he makes use of local folklore to give a more rounded portrait of James Stewart. Stewart is revealed as the foster father of the historical Alan Breck. Breck was later incorporated into Robert Lewis Stevenson's best selling novel Kidnapped, in which he rescues David Balfour, the novel's main character. Hunter reveals the barbarity visited upon those Highland Scots who had remained loyal to the deposed Stuart king, James VII. The German prince, The Duke of Cumberland, and a number of his officers are accurately depicted as cruel tyrants. This historical work exposes the genocidal policy of the British State, in regard to the Highland clans. It is shocking, that Scottish school children have been purposely denied a full knowledge of these events, events that could be described as the Scottish holocaust. I thoroughly recommend this excellent book. Anthony Cooper (co-author William Wallace Robin Hood Revealed)
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This book explores the Jacobite Rebellion, The reasons for Culloden the bloodbath and subsequent slaughter, by Butcher Cumberland aided by lowland Scots.
It also covers the Appin murder of Colin Campbell an agent for the English government.
The sacrificial lamb, James Stewart, a Culloden veteran who was hanged after a shabby trial (he wasn't the murderer) but it appeased the frightened English. To learn more, buy and read this book, you won't be disappointed.
It also covers the Appin murder of Colin Campbell an agent for the English government.
The sacrificial lamb, James Stewart, a Culloden veteran who was hanged after a shabby trial (he wasn't the murderer) but it appeased the frightened English. To learn more, buy and read this book, you won't be disappointed.
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This is the best account of culloden, the stewart dynasty and the aftermarth i have ever read. I could not put the book down and devoured every detail.
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It was Robert Louis Stevenson who, in "Kidnapped", romanticised the tale of James of the Glen, Alan Breck and the murder of Colin Campbell, Hanoverian factor of confiscated lands. Read more
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