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Siege of Stirling Castle 1746

Siege of Stirling Castle: StirlingCastle1900
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Marker: recorded battle location (no official boundary).

Key facts

Date (year)1746Wikidata P585 point in time
Century18th centuryderived
PeriodJacobite & laterderived
CountryScotlandderived
War / conflictJacobite rising of 1745Wikidata

About the battle

The siege of Stirling Castle took place from 8 January to 1 February 1746, during the 1745 Rising, when a Jacobite force besieged Stirling Castle, held by a government garrison under William Blakeney.

Despite defeating a relief force under Henry Hawley at Falkirk Muir on 17 January, the siege made little progress; when Cumberland's army began advancing north from Edinburgh, it was abandoned and on 1 February the Jacobites withdrew to Inverness.

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Location

  • Recorded location (Wikidata; may be approximate): 56.1166, -3.9369

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Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Siege of Stirling Castle (1746) (revision 1370745478), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs; citations removed. No text added.

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