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Anon,
A Compleat and Authentick History of the Rise, Progress, and Extinction of the Late Rebellion and of the Proceedings Against the Principal Persons Concerned Therein
(London, 1747)They attacked the King's Troops about Three in the Morning, and the Dragoons breaking on the first Fire, left the Foot exposed to the Highlanders, by whom, after a short Dispute, they were defeated, a considerable Number killed, and the best Part of the rest made Prisoners, the few Field-Pieces they had with them being likewise taken. The Earls of Loudon and Hume having rallied the Dragoons, retired with them to Lauder, and from thence the next Day to Berwick; Brigadier Fowke, and Col. Lascelles came back to Dumbar, and Sir John Cope went to Berwick. This is, by some called the Battle of Preston Pans, by others the Battle of Seaton, from two little Towns near which it is fought; but if it must be stiled a Battle, it is more properly the Battle of Glaidesmuir, since that was the Field of Battle, being a wide barren Heath, about seven Miles East from Edinburgh. (7–8)
[There follows a list of the officers killed on the Hanoverian side.]
B
Michael Hughes
A Plain Narrative or Journal of the late Rebellion begun in 1745 describing its Progress in Scotland and England till the full and glorious Defeat at Culloden
(London, 1746)- Type
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- Scott: Waverley , pp. 116 - 119Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993