His hopes ended with a catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Culloden, and he had to flee over the sea to Skye, and eventually back to France.

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This lingering anxiety in the British body politic reached its apotheosis in the rather more determined rebellion of 1745, led by Charles Edward, which culminated in the Battle of Culloden, where Bonnie Prince Charlie's Highland army was no match for the British both English and Scots redcoats.

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