Jacobite Flag Raised by Angus Regiment at Culloden Goes on Display

[bjproc]

This may interset some, i've just come across it

http://www.angusahead.com/AngusListi...g-culloden.asp


Issued: 22 April 2010

An amazing and fascinating piece of Angus's 18th Century history has just gone on display at the McManus Gallery in Dundee.

The artefact in question is the flag raised at The Battle of Culloden in 1746, by the 2nd Battalion of Lord Ogilvy's Forfarshire Regiment. When the battle ended, the defeated regiment retreated south to Glen Clova, where it was disbanded. Oral history legend has it that Captain John Kinloch, who carried the flag at Culloden, then hid the banner at Logie House, near Kirriemuir. Given that all the Jacobite flags captured by the Hanoverian troops at Culloden were taken to Edinburgh and burnt, it's amazing that this banner has managed to survive.

Lord Ogilvy, the Earl of Airlie, had a long tradition of Jacobitism in his family, dating back to 1640, when the Ogilvy family supported Charles I during the time of the National Covenant and the English Civil War. Indeed, the burning of Airlie Castle (near Kirriemuir) in 1640, is immortalised in the Jacobite folk song, 'The Bonnie House of Airlie'.

The Latin words on the flag translate into the old Scottish motto: 'No one provokes me with impunity'. Interestingly, the emblem on the flag is the Scottish thistle, rather than a symbol or a coat of arms associated with the deposed Stewart dynasty. However, it transpires that the Scottish thistle was the crest used by Lord Ogilvy's Jacobite regiment.

Angus was (perhaps still is?) famous for being a Jacobite region, as highlighted by the 'King O'er the Water' political messages contained in the intricate plasterwork at the House of Dun, near Brechin (not to mention all the white roses in the garden - a white rose being the symbol of the Jacobite movement). Still further, Balnamoon's Cave in Glen Esk, is another famous Angus haunt for Jacobites, and is the location where Laird Balnamoon famously hid himself for several months following Culloden. In short, Angus's history in the 17th and 18th centuries is virtually a Jacobite Trail of derring-do, coded messages, folk songs and secret hideaways in the Glens.

To find out more about the current exhibition at the McManus Gallery.

[BoldHighlander]

Cool!

[Bigkahuna]

Good find Lad!!

[10buckstew]

God Bless it! Some will never forget.