Before I bow out of this thread, I am a polar opposite of romanticist over BPC. I hate the whole soppy thing except for its usefulness for tourism.

However, the effect the whole episode had on following Scottish generations fis real enough. So to know where it all came from is enough.

However, today Scotland is a different time and place and two and a half centuries of world history have flowed under the bridge since then, a world Scotland is part of. Jacobitism is a past little blip on the world historical map.

My ancestor Niel Gow was impressed into the Jacobite army in 1745, but he skipped asap - smart guy !

The Jacobites were a bunch of losers and Scotland soon hitched its future to the English star and helped create one of the most successful empires in history. That's something to be proud of. God Save The Queen.