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Forty-five

proper nounattested in dialogue

The Jacobite rising of 1745.

proper noun

  1. 1

    historicalThe Jacobite rising of 1745.

    Kingshouse, in the Blackmount, and Finlarig Castle, at the west end of Loch Tay, were both garrisoned during the ’45.

    In the sharpest sense, the Forty-five was not a war between Scots and Englishmen, but a civil war.

    Space does not permit an account of the assimilation of Scotland to England in the years between the Forty-five and our own time […].

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