have you ever wanted to travel from
edinburgh to inverness with some
historical stops along the way
follow me today on the jacobite road
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hi guys today i want to take you on a
whistle-stop tour
of what i call the jacobite road
although what maps
simply call road number nine it's the
road that goes from edinburgh around by
sterling
and north through inverness up to
scrapster harbour
away north of thurso originally
this would have been on that road way
way way back in the old days okay
in fact you can see down here
i don't know if you can see etched here
perth and an
arrow this way okay this is proper old
okay so the the road i'm talking about
so much in jacobite history happened
within about a mile either side of that
road
that is like uh it's like a thread of
tissue going through history it's
incredible and i'm gonna take you
on that road today we're going to stop
off at
sheriff muir dunkeld uh carol
kelly cranky strewn blair athol moy
can you see and of course kallorden i
don't think i got them all in just the
right geographical order
that doesn't matter right i'm going to
leave there's going to be google maps
below
so you can follow that road and when you
do we're going to do it today
at a pretty whistle stop kind of pace
but you're going to be able to do it at
your leisure
you're going to be able to visit places
of interest and you're going to be
able to enjoy the beautiful countryside
that we're going to pass through
come on let's do it
i'm just above dunblane it's sheriff
muir
now the beautiful views north to the
highlands
belie the fact that in 1715 this was a
location
of the culminating battle in the
jacobite rising against george elector
of hanover
he'd been invited as monarch of a
recently united kingdom of great britain
ireland
if you follow the b road across the moor
you can stop for a minute
and look north to take in the
breathtaking views of the highland line
that a camera can't replicate
however you turn this way and you get
the view that would have been enjoyed by
the jacobite forces who came up here
to meet the duke of argyll's troops
arriving from stirling
now if you're wondering why they came
all the way up here to have a battle it
was actually an
accident some hanoverian troops had come
up here to recognize her by looking down
on the jacobite movements below thinking
that the whole hanoverian force
was coming up here to the high ground
the jacobites
brought their forces up the hanaverians
panicked
and brought their entire force up the
whole thing ended up pretty messy
now the trees away behind me behind the
tail there wouldn't have been there at
the time
in fact i'm going to take you down to a
monument to the right of those trees and
then to a marker on the other side of
those trees
come on
in 1915 200 years after the battle the
clan macrae society
erected this monument to the macraes who
fell
it's worse burn the thought for the men
who died on both sides
husbands fathers sons
yet the forestry commission plant trees
on this battlefield
the a9 has been dueled through the 1689
killer cranky battlefield
and now a commercial development has
been built at culloden
paranoid who me
you can follow this path
to what's known as the gathering stone
it's now protected by iron bars
but it's said to be the point at which
on his horse the earl of mar the leader
of the jacobite forces commenced
the battle and they've actually improved
the path out to here now
and there's no gift shop there's no book
shop there's no coffee shop
but it's worth a visit to get a sense of
this place that's imbued with a spirit
of men on both sides who fought and died
for what they believed in
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now if you watched a video on the battle
killing cranky that i did
then dunkeld was a town from which the
scottish government
will unite troops set off north on the
morning of the battle
it was to hear that the jacobite troops
came
after the battle of kelly cranky to
besiege dunkeld
okay now here you can see a little
monument there
uh in the grounds of the cathedral to
the cameronians
who defended the town against the
jacobites and to this day i see flowers
left from time to time here
now the cathedral here was to be the
last redoubt where they fell
back to the cameroonian troops as they
burned everything behind them very
little was left
after the siege but it's a lovely place
to make a stop
on the jacobite road north there's a
little museum
inside the cathedral and i love the
setting of the grounds here
spanning down to the river come on let
me show you
i just love this spot and in the town
there are cafes
hotels pubs is really quaint the only
problem is there's never enough
time before you have to be on your way
again i must do a video at some point
just about dunkirl itself it's a lovely
town
and you should spend some time
the next stop on the jacobite road is
killikrank
so the battle of killer cranky was the
first set battle of scotland's jacobite
wars
and here at kelly cranky there's a
national trust center it's an idyllic
place to make her stop in the jacobite
road
now the battle itself took place a
couple miles up the road
but this national trust center lies in
the southern fringes of the battlefield
but here at the visitor center you can
enjoy the flora and fauna that were left
and you can visit the soldier's league
here where a plain red cloak soldier
jumped
18 feet across the river to escape
pursuing jacobite troops
i wonder if i could make a jump like
that
and if you continue on the
back road not the main a9 but the back
road through the village of kelly cranky
then you'll pass by
the cleaver house stone that's the stone
at which
john graham of clever house the jacobite
leader is said to have fallen
at the battle achille cranky and then of
course you'll continue
north hey and blair
castle grounds and gardens blair castle
features in the jacobite counter
revolution of 1689
and in the 1745 bonnie prince charlie
uprising
it was a competing size trying to occupy
blair castle that led to the battle of
kelly cranky
the murray battle family had divided
loyalties throughout the jack of eight
years
in fact the first duke of athol staff
effectively locked them out
and barricaded themselves in for the
jacobite cause
and then a couple of generations later
the murray of athol brothers to
composing sides in the jacobite civil
war
one brother even had to write a letter
of apology to the other
for the damage that he caused by cannon
when he besieged the family pile behind
me for bonnie prince charlie
the prince spent time here on the
triumphal road south
and his fateful road back there's loads
to see
there's lovely gardens john graham of
clever house is
bonnie dundee's buried here it's lovely
there's a tea room creams corns creams
corns
so we're at the house of brewer on the
a9
okay now there are a number of reasons
why you might camp the house of brewer
on the jacobite road it might be they
want to buy some cashmere or some tweed
or it might just be that you want to go
to the best
toilets on the jacobite road
particularly for the ladies they're very
plush smells like a rose the toilet is
in there anyway
on the other side of the road is a place
called strewn
and you'll see here there's the clan
donahue
museum and the 13th clan chief of clan
donahe
was alexander robertson of strewn
and he's more important in the story of
the
jacobites indeed he was out in
all three of the key
jacobite uprisings he was with bonnie
dundee
at the battle of killer cranky he
was at the battle of sheriff muir
fighting for the jacobites so it was no
surprise
that when bonnie prince charlie arrived
raised the standard at glenn finn and
came down
at the highlands to perth that alexander
roberson of strewn
joined up and indeed was at the battle
of preston panz
with bonnie prince charlie there after
the battle of preston pans
uh he got a lot of great loot and
indeed apparently he got uh
john cope the leader of the hanoverian
side okay
uh robertson of strewn apparently
got his coach as loot and
brought this coach up to the highlands a
whole inappropriate place
to be running about in a coach right
and uh but indeed before they got back
to strewn
uh one of the wheels came off and they
already arrived back
in strewn with his klansmen
carrying the coach and him inside
as he was an old birthday by this time
and he didn't continue all the way down
to uh derby but he came home triumphant
in this coach anyway uh
here at the house of brewer it's a nice
stop oh incidentally
uh up the back you can go up this lovely
set of waterfalls and stuff like that
but certainly a nice stop worth the
refreshment and
a toilet stop if nothing else
going to see the clown donald museum
it's nice
on the edge of the little town can you
see here
is ruthlin barracks now you take the
turn off from the a9 to come through
newton more and you'll find the highland
folk museum
i'm not going to lie to you you can
spend the whole day there
the cream scones aren't great but one
really special thing that they've
created at this open air living museum
is a replica of a little highland
township is well worth
the visit let's go inside
can you see is the next town after
newton
moore and robin barracks here was one of
several forts in barracks built
so the new regime could keep the
highlands in check
as you walk around inside you get a feel
for what it must have been like for the
redcoat soldiers who manned these
barracks
as they kept their eye in the
surrounding countryside
and it's a surrounding countryside
that's well worth keeping an eye on
bonnie prince charlie's men tried but
failed in their attempts to take rather
than barracks as they headed south
from glen finnen but they did take it
successfully on the way back
north hence its current state and it was
here that the klansmen
finally gathered after culloden this
gathering was to be the start
of the new campaign against the british
army
i've read that there were more gathered
here for the jacobites than stood at
culloden
maybe because they knew what was in
store for their communities
and they had to defend themselves and
their people at all costs
from here a message was sent to prince
charles to let him know
that his loyal clansmen were ready for
the fight
his response was every man for himself
so we've made a stop on the muay road
okay
now that might be quite difficult to
find but don't worry i'll put a wee
marker on the map somewhere okay and i'm
gonna take you
on a little woodland walk come with me
this will be speeded up
now there's a path here okay
and it'll take you down to the lock side
there's a lovely woodland walk okay
and i'm going to go down there i'm going
to tell you a bit of a story now
what you get here is to make sure you
know how to get there what i'm going to
do is i'm going to leave
a series of acorns so that you can
follow the acorns
or some fat squirrels in order to get
down to the lock side
but it'll be easy you just follow the
path okay
come with me
you can take a lovely walk along this
path here
along the loch side of lok moi my hall
was a home
across the lake of anne mcintosh her
husband was an officer in the british
army
but she was a staunch jacobite so when
her husband was away with the hanoverian
forces
she raised the clan for prince charlie
guinness super k
carnalan the prince made a stop here on
his way north and he was welcomed by
anne but 11 miles away in inverness were
hanoverian forces
and her husband and when they heard
about the prince
they sent a force of 1500 men to capture
them
but a servant waiting at the hanoverian
table had sent a young lad called
lachlan mcintosh to run the 11 miles to
muay here
and warn the colonel what did she do
with the hanoverians approaching
and no way to defend her or the prince
she sent the prince on an escape route
along the shores
of lok moi here she sent a blacksmith
and four other men along the inverness
road to await the red coat troops
and the five head and pete stacks on
either side of the road
they fired shots ran from place to place
and shouted the battle cries of various
different clans to make it seem
like there were more of them the
redcoats
panicked many of them fled when their
commander lord loudoun got back to
inverness he said
they were standing ten deep i tell you
in fact
a blacksmith and his five klansmen pals
had routed 1500 troops of a world
superpower and what is now known as the
route
of moy let's take a walk
it goes without saying that at the end
of the jacobite road
is colloden there's no way i can do this
place justice in a few words at the end
of this whistle stop tour
that attempt is going to have to be made
on a future date
suffice to say there's a visitor center
there it's really interesting
they've got artifacts they've got av
presentations they do talks and they do
battlefield walks
but there's nothing more sobering than
looking out across
the gap between the red flags of the
hanoverian lines and the blue flags of
the jacobite lines
and imagine what it must have been like
to run across
that boggy field in the face of
withering cannon
grapeshot and small arms fire onto the
piercing points of bennett's
and all for a prince who days later as
you stand at rather than barracks
will see every man for himself
and then he will flee to france
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