Battle of Prestonpans

The Battle of Prestonpans, also known as the Battle of Gladsmuir, was fought on 21 September 1745, near Prestonpans, in East Lothian. It was the first significant engagement of the Jacobite rising of 1745, which is sometimes viewed as a subsidiary conflict of the War of the Austrian Succession.

Category:18th century in the Kingdom of Great Britain
Category:1745
Category:18th century in Scotland
Category:18th-century battles
Category:East Lothian
Category:1740s in Europe