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Another campaign was held in 1715 under the Jacobite Earl of Mar, but it was the 1745 rising of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the “Young Pretender,” which became the stuff of legend.
James Edward Stuart, known as the “Old Pretender,” traveled up the Firth of Forth in 1708 but was driven back by British ships and bad weather.
Within ten years of the Young Pretender’s occupation of Holyrood, Edinburgh’s town council proposed a plan to relieve the chronic overcrowding of the Royal Mile tenements by constructing a New Town on land to the north of the castle.
Only Seattle had the guts to tell the truth, and to cut that truth in stone, by paying tribute to the real European "discoverer" of America and the people who explored and settled Vinland half a millennium before the Italian pretender acting for Spain.
The young slacker Bush, called by his country, avenging his father against the sinful pretender.