The Last Highland Uprising

Music Video. Song, The King's Shilling sung by Battlefield Band

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Scotland
• Bonnie
• Prince
• Charlie
• Low
• Road
• Culloden

[TheTraumarama2]

I have nothing but respect for the Black Watch. They kicked our asses in New York, didn't stand in straight lines, and refused any medals because they believed they were fighting kinsmen, not enemy soldiers.

[hitmann2300]

@TheTraumarama2 True true, except that as far as fighting in lines, it depends upon the battlefield they fought on, at Ticonderoga, they fought in battle line formation.

[TheLordrochester]

many highlanders and lowlanders didn't need a shilling as they volunteered for fighting. My family is Munroe and we have had a great history of fighting for ourselves and the British Army and we chose not to support the pretender. Many clans were fiercely divided throughtout the ages with many choosing to fight for the British government. So this notion of a unified highland revolt is fantasy.

Many scots actually preffered a hanoverian government because of its presybterian values.

[hitmann2300]

@TheLordrochester In no way have I even presented the 45 as a "unified highland revolt" It was indeed as much a Scottish "civil war" as it was a "British" civil war in that there were Jacobites in England and Wales as well.

In fact my own family, the Crawfords, can state that two of their number, fought for Charlie, while 7 others fought for Cumberland at Culloden.

The video is not political at all, and indeed I am a Unionist.

[Kronstadtsuperior]

Nice pictures of Scotland.

[MacDonaldSeumas]

@MsJasmi His family was of British origin. He was supposed to be one of the last Cumbric speakers (a british celtic language very similaer to welsh) and bi-lingual in Gaelic as it was mostly spoken in the area where he grew up. He was of romano-british (or welsh if you prefer) origin

[Apemanwithcalculator]

@MsJasmi no.......wallace comes from "welsh speakers"....language like welsh were spoken in southern scotland originally...welsh is romano british/celtic....strathclyde from ystrad clud

[Apemanwithcalculator]

@TheLordrochester religion is pretty much dead now so no need to stay with UK plc....who have left parts of our beautful island to rot....why is glasgow east have worst poverty western europe?

[tdbsnr]

Great song, nice version, crap vid.

[IMSaura]

@TheLordrochester So the Munro stone for their 426 lost were your family?

[wsmiththeoval]

A great song that conjures up the reasons why so many young scottish lads and lassies to this day still join for the shiling that is paid. Compared withthe shilling paid to bankers and members of or fair and just members of parliment.God on our honest kin.

[jones0430]

My family left Scotland after the Rising of the '45, and after a brief stay in Ireland, ended up in Pennsylvania. So I don't think my direct ancestors every took the King's Schilling, seeing as we opposed the English twice.