Young Pretender
Americannoun
noun
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Author Mackenzie's is not a formal history of the Young Pretender but a series of portraits of the women who made up a large part of his life.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This was the royal house of Stuart, in the glittering person and presence of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender and son of the exiled Stuart King James III.
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A list of these non-jurors and Roman Catholics was compiled after the rebellion of 1715, and again in 1745, when the rebellion of the Young Pretender once more disturbed the Kingdom.
From The Annals of Willenhall by Hackwood, Frederick William
In 1745 the French defeated the English and Dutch forces in the Netherlands; this encouraged the Young Pretender to make another attempt to gain the English crown.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey
It is, perhaps, to be regretted that Kilmarnock should on the scaffold have expressed any regret for the part he had played in supporting the Young Pretender against the House of Hanover.
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by McCarthy, Justin
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