3777 x 5554 px | 32 x 47 cm | 12,6 x 18,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
2007
Ubicazione:
Glenfinnan Monument at the head of Loch Eil Scottish Highland Region
Altre informazioni:
The world-renowned story of Bonnie Prince Charlie's fight for the British throne gathered momentum at Glenfinnan where he raised the Jacobite standard and rallied his clansmen for battle. The long reaches of Loch Shiel are veiled by steep mountains, and the rallying there of some 1, 200 Highlanders must have been an awe-inspiring sight when the Prince arrived from Loch Nan Uamh on 19 August 1745. Some 70 years later, the Glenfinnan monument was built by Alexander MacDonald of Glenaladale in memory of all the clansmen who had fought for the cause. The tower is now in the custody of the National Trust for Scotland Bonnie Prince Charlie's subsequent flight has become the stuff of legend, and is commemorated in the popular folk song "The Skye Boat Song" (lyrics 1884, tune traditional) and also the old Irish song Bímse Buan ar Buairt Gach Ló by Seán Clárach. Assisted by loyal supporters such as Flora Macdonald who helped him escape pursuers on the Isle of Skye by taking him in a small boat disguised as her Irish Maid "Betty Burke", he evaded capture and left the country aboard the French frigate L'Heureux, arriving back in France in September. The cause of the Stuarts being lost, the remainder of his life was — with a brief exception — spent in exile.
