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Forty-five, the
     
Forty-five, the
another name for the Jacobite Rising of 1745, when the Scottish prince, Bonnie Prince Charlie, led an attempt to bring back the Stuart family of Britain. It failed when his army was defeated at the Battle of Culloden
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