A fantastic series. Weir contributed a huge amount to msm when it was genuine. And these are excellent interviews, letting these men speak for themselves. The Ghaidlig service sounds good but cha d fhuair sinn ach boilsgeadh dheth. Bha an t shagairt a bruidhinn gu glic.
That is a modern view. According to contemporary accounts, Bonnie Prince Charlie was a charismatic figure, intelligent, multilingual, and certainly not lacking in military sense or personal courage. The reason he failed was mainly because Louis XV did not follow through with his promise of more troops and supplies.
He reached Derby in England before deciding to turn back.....hardly a clown The real failure was promised landed gentry in NorthEast England and elsewhere not joining....hence they got given the traitor name "Geordies" which has been retained bizarrely as an identity to this day 😂
It's funny how the people who fought on the side of the Highlanders are called "Charlies"... Yet we still celebrate and honour the people who destroyed the Highlands like the imported English establishment
@@alicemilne1444 It was good that you got to speak to him and his contemporaries to get their views. Did you ask the 400 men he left to be slaughtered at Carlisle if he was charismatic? You are right, he had so much military experience, with all those armies he had previously led and the great victories he had achieved before landing in Scotland. He was so intelligent that he knew the French, Spanish and some of the English nobility were pulling his strings and were going to leave him high and dry - he had it all planned.
We are blessed to have these programmes left for posterity.
I remember watching Weirs way in the day he took us all over Scotland they were wonderful films
A fantastic series. Weir contributed a huge amount to msm when it was genuine. And these are excellent interviews, letting these men speak for themselves. The Ghaidlig service sounds good but cha d fhuair sinn ach boilsgeadh dheth. Bha an t shagairt a bruidhinn gu glic.
Tom was a true Scot.
Brilliant guy lived his shows
Classic , 1950 s Crofter
Land of the blessed
"realist"
They reached Derby in England
All those kids running about the deck machinery and from boat to boat. No paranoid parenting here!
Bonnie prince charlie - he was a charlie. Pity so many men died before he and others realised it.
That is a modern view. According to contemporary accounts, Bonnie Prince Charlie was a charismatic figure, intelligent, multilingual, and certainly not lacking in military sense or personal courage. The reason he failed was mainly because Louis XV did not follow through with his promise of more troops and supplies.
He reached Derby in England before deciding to turn back.....hardly a clown
The real failure was promised landed gentry in NorthEast England and elsewhere not joining....hence they got given the traitor name "Geordies" which has been retained bizarrely as an identity to this day 😂
It's funny how the people who fought on the side of the Highlanders are called "Charlies"... Yet we still celebrate and honour the people who destroyed the Highlands like the imported English establishment
@@alicemilne1444 It was good that you got to speak to him and his contemporaries to get their views. Did you ask the 400 men he left to be slaughtered at Carlisle if he was charismatic? You are right, he had so much military experience, with all those armies he had previously led and the great victories he had achieved before landing in Scotland. He was so intelligent that he knew the French, Spanish and some of the English nobility were pulling his strings and were going to leave him high and dry - he had it all planned.
@@Theagchm Ah, good to know that you spoke to all those people yourself. You must have been a well-travelled lad.