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Macdonald, Flora

Scottish Jacobite

born 1722, Milton, South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scot.

died March 5, 1790, Kingsburgh House, Skye, Inner Hebrides

Scottish Jacobite heroine who helped Charles Edward (Charles Edward, the Young Pretender), the Young Pretender, the Stuart claimant to the British throne, to escape from Scotland after his defeat in the Jacobite rebellion of 1745–46. The daughter of Ranald Macdonald, a tacksman or farmer of Milton in the island of South Uist (Hebrides), she would come to be immortalized in Jacobite ballads and legends.

The Pretender suffered his final defeat of the war at Culloden in April 1746, and, pursued by the English, he took refuge in the Hebrides, where Flora was visiting some friends. She allowed him to join her party disguised as Betty Burke, an Irish spinning maid, and obtained permission from the English for the group to sail to Skye (also in the Hebrides). At Skye, Flora and the Pretender parted, but the English learned of her role in the escape. She was imprisoned in the Tower of London but was pardoned in 1747. Three years later she married Allan Macdonald of Kingsburgh, and in 1774 they emigrated to North Carolina. Allan was captured while fighting for the British in the American Revolutionary War, and Flora returned alone to Scotland in 1779. She was later joined by her husband. Alexander MacGregor's Life of Flora Macdonald (1882) has frequently been reprinted.

词条	Macdonald, Flora
释义	Macdonald, Flora Scottish Jacobite born 1722, Milton, South Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scot. died March 5, 1790, Kingsburgh House, Skye, Inner Hebrides Scottish Jacobite heroine who helped Charles Edward (Charles Edward, the Young Pretender), the Young Pretender, the Stuart claimant to the British throne, to escape from Scotland after his defeat in the Jacobite rebellion of 1745–46. The daughter of Ranald Macdonald, a tacksman or farmer of Milton in the island of South Uist (Hebrides), she would come to be immortalized in Jacobite ballads and legends. The Pretender suffered his final defeat of the war at Culloden in April 1746, and, pursued by the English, he took refuge in the Hebrides, where Flora was visiting some friends. She allowed him to join her party disguised as Betty Burke, an Irish spinning maid, and obtained permission from the English for the group to sail to Skye (also in the Hebrides). At Skye, Flora and the Pretender parted, but the English learned of her role in the escape. She was imprisoned in the Tower of London but was pardoned in 1747. Three years later she married Allan Macdonald of Kingsburgh, and in 1774 they emigrated to North Carolina. Allan was captured while fighting for the British in the American Revolutionary War, and Flora returned alone to Scotland in 1779. She was later joined by her husband. Alexander MacGregor's Life of Flora Macdonald (1882) has frequently been reprinted.
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