. The Stuart dynasty: short studies of its rise, course, and early exile. The latter drawn from papers in Her Majesty's possession at Windsor castle. By Percy M. Thornton . KING .1 \i> EX1 that the I ide n\ :> i il«\\ ing in favour of bi ma fcerjJames II.; thai Londonderry had been captuiweeks before the battle in which be himself actuallyFell, and also thai the French were then ma tei ofthe (ihannel. In each I be \\ isfa wa fal her bo the thought, and the hopes expressed w<realised.* Some idea of the estimation in which William Dundees powers may be learned by theremark he m
. The Stuart dynasty: short studies of its rise, course, and early exile. The latter drawn from papers in Her Majesty's possession at Windsor castle. By Percy M. Thornton . KING .1 \i> EX1 that the I ide n\ :> i il«\\ ing in favour of bi ma fcerjJames II.; thai Londonderry had been captuiweeks before the battle in which be himself actuallyFell, and also thai the French were then ma tei ofthe (ihannel. In each I be \\ isfa wa fal her bo the thought, and the hopes expressed w<realised.* Some idea of the estimation in which William Dundees powers may be learned by theremark he made after Oliecrankie, when theEdinburgh express had been detained a day uponthe road by accident. Then, said King \VNIi;iin,MDundee must be dead, for otherwise he would havehorn at Edinburgh before the express. f It is interesting to speculate as to what might havehappened in Scotland supposing that the fatal shotat Killiecrankie had missed its aim, and that Claver-liouse had immediately swooped down upon thevalley of Forth, and, regardless of Stirling, pushedhis way straight to the capital. Regarding the planto regain Great Britain for the Stuarts as a whole,it i
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