
What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: In November 1745 Jacobite forces under Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonny Prince Charlie') (1720-1788) used this site as a gun park Recorded plaque organisation: Manchester City Council.
Charles Edward Stuart, also known as "Bonnie Prince Charlie," was the pretender to the British throne and led the Jacobite rising of 1745 aiming to restore his father, James Francis Edward Stuart, to the monarchy; he is remembered for this uprising and its eventual defeat at Culloden.
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