Battle in Scotland during the Jacobite rising of 1745
Battle of Prestonpans
Part of the Jacobite rising of 1745
Cairn erected in memory of the battle
Date
21 September 1745
Location
Prestonpans, Scotland, Great Britain
Result
Jacobite victory
Belligerents
Jacobites
British Government
Commanders and leaders
Charles Stuart
George Murray
Donald Cameron
John O'Sullivan
John Cope
Thomas Fowke
Peregrine Lascelles
James Gardiner †
Strength
2,500
2,191[a][1]
Casualties and losses
105–120 killed and wounded[2]
300–500 killed and wounded 500–600 captured
Registered battlefield
Designated
21 March 2011
Reference no.
BTL16
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Jacobite rising of 1745
Highbridge
1st Ruthven
Prestonpans
Culloden House
1st Carlisle
Clifton
2nd Carlisle
1st Fort Augustus
Inverurie
Falkirk
Stirling
2nd Ruthven
Moy
Inverness
2nd Fort Augustus
Atholl
Blair Castle
Keith
Fort William
Dornoch
Tongue
Littleferry
Culloden
Loch nan Uamh
Loch Ailort
Arisaig
Lochaber and Shiramore
Killin
Appin Murder
Rannoch
The Battle of Prestonpans, also known as the Battle of Gladsmuir, was fought on 21 September 1745, near Prestonpans, in East Lothian, the first significant engagement of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
Jacobite forces, led by the Stuart exile Charles Edward Stuart, defeated a government army under Sir John Cope, whose inexperienced troops broke in the face of a Highland charge. The battle lasted less than thirty minutes, was a huge boost to Jacobite morale and established the revolt as a serious threat to the British government.
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