Word: culloden
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...makes half a dozen excursions out of the library as some reminiscent veterans recite the events which followed: battles and harrowing journeys at sea, war in the colonies. Bonnie Prince Charlie himself takes over the telling of the Highlands uprising of 1745 that led him fatefully to Culloden, defeat and flight. But, alas, as he listens to Walpole & Co. in the intervals between recitals, Prince Charles decides that 1) the War of Jenkins' Ear actually led to a lot of misery for the human species in general and Englishmen in particular, and 2) the English are satisfied with things...
...Jordan, of Culloden, Ga., went to British Columbia years ago and made a pile in gold. He died last year, left his fortune to his three brothers, Bob, Dan and Gee, an infantile paralysis cripple. Gee's share was $13,000. But he had left home years before, after a quarrel. Last Bob & Dan heard of him, he was peddling shoelaces and razor blades around Pittsburgh. Last week Court of Missing Heirs broadcast Gee Jordan's case. In Pittsburgh, a 63-year-old "newsboy" friend of 52 -year-old Gee heard the broadcast, located him, sick...
Scrymgeour is pronoonced Skrimjer as it was when th' Heilanders defeated th' Sassan-ach at Bannockburn. aye an' at Prestonpans ferbye (an' if ye dare mention Flodden Field or Culloden, I'll slit yer throats wi' ma rusty Claymore an' feed yer misbegotten flesh tae th' Eagles...
...events of "the Forty-five" leading up to the bloody collapse at Culloden, Author Mackenzie tells little, concentrates on the loyal heroism of Prince Charlie's protectors after the battle, when redcoats combed the country for him. One of his hostesses, Anne Macintosh, on a visit to London three years after, found herself dancing with the Duke of Cumberland (known to all good Jacobites as "the Butcher of Culloden"). The first dance over, she asked if she might choose the air for the second, called for The Auld Stuarts Back Again...
...SLAVE SHIP?Mary Johnston? Little, Brown ($2.00). David Scott happened to be so born that he quite naturally fought for the Stuarts at Culloden. For that culpable error in prenatal judgment he was arrested and condemned to be shipped as a political slave to Barbados or Virginia. David Scott, however, was a lad of spirit, decided against the King and the King's men, broke jail, was not recaptured for some time. Sent to Virginia, he worked in the forests and fields oi the new country in a capacity only nominally above that of the African slaves, his coworkers. Again...