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Forty-five en · PROPN

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1. (historical) The Jacobite rising of 1745.
   • Space does not permit an account of the assimilation of Scotland to England in the years between the Forty-five and our own time […]. 2012, Andrew Lang, A Short History of Scotland:
   • In the sharpest sense, the Forty-five was not a war between Scots and Englishmen, but a civil war. 2001, Arthur L. Herman, The Scottish Enlightenment, Harper Perennial, published 2006, page 142:
   • Kingshouse, in the Blackmount, and Finlarig Castle, at the west end of Loch Tay, were both garrisoned during the ’45. 1893, Scottish Notes and Queries, page 158:

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