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BATTLE OF PRESTONPANS

The Battle of Prestonpans was the first major engagement of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. A small Hanoverian army under Sir John Cope was routed by the Highlanders of the equally small Jacobite army, leaving the way clear for the Young Pretender's subsequent invasion of England.
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