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The Forty-five was the fourth occasion on which a Jacobite leader had raised a Highland army and thus put himself in a position to threaten the progress of the English Revolution. From a Whig point of view, 1745 was a replay of 1645, 1689 and 1715. This recurring pattern meant that Highlanders impressed themselves on British consciousness first of all as warriors. Economically and politically, Gaelic Scotland was no doubt negligible; but militarily it had made itself impossible to ignore.
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The phrase is from a poem celebrating the opening of Wade’s bridge over the Tay at Aberfeldy. Alexander Robertson, The History and Martial Achievements of the Robertsons of Strowan (Edinburgh, 1785), part 2, p. 17.
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The words were first published in 1765, and much reprinted. This is the text of David Herd, Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, Etc, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1776), vol. I, p. 116.
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Womack, P. (1989). Warriors. In: Improvement and Romance. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08496-8_3
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