Clifton

Being pressed North by the Duke of Cumberland, Price Charles ordered his Jacobite army to fall back to Scotland. Murray, when he received the order to retire to Carlisle was still in Clifton and already engaged with the Duke of …

1745-12-18

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Being pressed North by the Duke of Cumberland, Price Charles ordered his Jacobite army to fall back to Scotland. Murray, when he received the order to retire to Carlisle was still in Clifton and already engaged with the Duke of Cumberland’s dismounted dragoons. Murray determined it would be difficult and dangerous to make an orderly retreat while already under attack. His only hope therefore seemed to be to first drive back the advancing dragoons. It was about an hour after dusk when Murray led his Highlanders against the Government right. The Highland charge drove the thin line of dismounted dragoons back, which gave Murray’s Jacobites the pause in the action they needed to break contact and retreat north.

Clifton, England

The Clifton Moor Skirmish took place on the evening of Wednesday 18 December during the Jacobite rising of 1745. Following the decision to retreat from Derby on 6 December, the fast-moving Jacobite army split into three smaller columns; on the morning of 18th, a small force of dragoons led by Cumberland and Sir Philip Honywood made contact with the Jacobite rearguard, at that point commanded by Lord George Murray.

Wikipedia: Clifton Moor Skirmish

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