Jan 20 The Making of Great Britain and British Empire

Charity and Britannia recruiting the urchins. From Three Letters on
the subject of the Marine Society, Joseph Hanway, 1757 p.49.
© National Maritime Museum, London. (Neg. no. D1790)


Oxford English Dictionary

 

Year
% of land in Catholic hands
1641
58
1665
20
1700
14

 

Introduction

I. Ireland
A. varieties of Irishness
Gaelic Irish, Old English, New English, Ulster Scots

B. Ascendancy Ireland
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II. Scotland
A. Highlands and Lowlands

B. Creating Great Britain
the Darien scheme

C. Jacobitism and the Clearances
Culloden (1746)

 

III. A British Empire


Charles Edward Stuart


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


David Morier, Battle of Culloden (1746)