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Flora MacDonald (em gaélico escocês: Fionnghal NicDhòmhnaill; 1722 – 4 de Março de 1790), nascida na Ilha de Uist, foi uma heroína escocesa . O Adeus de Flora MacDonald a Bonnie Prince Charlie. George William Joy, 1891.
Flora MacDonald [a] (1722 - 5 March 1790) is best known for helping Charles Edward Stuart evade government troops after the Battle of Culloden in April 1746. Her family had generally backed the government during the 1745 Rising, and MacDonald later claimed to have assisted Charles out of sympathy for his situation.
Flora Macdonald was a Scottish Jacobite heroine who helped Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, the Stuart claimant to the British throne, to escape from Scotland after his defeat in the Jacobite rebellion of 1745–46.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
14 de mar. de 2022 · In June 1746, Flora MacDonald, a 24-year-old woman staying on the Outer Hebridean island of Benbecula, set sail over the sea towards Skye. She travelled with several companions, including an Irish spinning maid whom the party called ‘Betty Burke’.
- Elinor Evans
Há 4 dias · Flora MacDonald lived from 1722 to 5 March 1790. She is chiefly remembered as a heroine of the Jacobite cause for her part in helping Charles Edward Stuart - Bonnie Prince Charlie - "over the sea to Skye" from Benbecula in the Western Isles during his flight in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden.
29 de mai. de 2018 · Flora Macdonald was a singer and a Jacobite who assisted Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, to flee from the Hanoverian army in 1746. She later moved to America and fought against the colonists in the Revolutionary War.