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The Scots woman by Inglis Fletcher
Book Number:
RC 54013
Flora MacDonald, who saved the life of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie
Prince Charlie) decades earlier, joins other Highlanders in the colony of
North
Carolina. Many Scots who side with the Loyalists are killed or captured at
the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in 1776.
This was a good book. I like the historical events and the way she
described them. This was the first of Inglis Fletcher's books that I have
read. I'd be interested to read some others.
Carla/TexasRed
Sounds fascinating of course the story has been romanticised beyond belief by a succession of writers,who prefer to gloss over the carnage of those times, and dwell on the "romance" between charlie and flora which never really happened.
the truth is less attractive charlie died as a destitute and hopeless alcoholic, in Paris, not fighting heroically in the USA still that wouldn't make a good story..
This one tells it pretty much like it was, Fletcher didn't romantize the story. It was a brutal time and she told it that way. I know what you mean about other folks writings though.
that's good it was a brutal time indeed the rebellion might have succeed if the clans had united behind charlie instead of fighting for position its the same old story in Scotland...Another good factual historical tale, concerns the MacDonald's massacre of the Campbells of Glencoe..stirring bloodythirsty stuff.
that's good it was a brutal time indeed the rebellion might have succeed if the clans had united behind charlie instead of fighting for position its the same old story in Scotland...Another good factual historical tale, concerns the MacDonald's massacre of the Campbells of Glencoe..stirring bloodythirsty stuff.
It sounds good. Nice and historical.