Flora MacDonald
1722 – 1790
Photographs of Plaque
Fort Edward Blockhouse Windsor
Hants County Nova Scotia
GPS location: 44°59’48″N 64°08’07″W
The Fort Edward blockhouse, with the Flora MacDonald plaque, is located
only 12 seconds of latitude – about 360 metres – south of 45° latitude,
half way between the Equator and the North Pole.
Flora MacDonald plaque Windsor, Nova Scotia
Photographed 21 November 2002
Prince Charles Edward Stuart was the grandson of James VII/II.
On 22 July 1745, Prince Charles Edward Stuart
— a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Charlie or the Young Pretender —
made landfall at Barra Head, the southernmost tip of the Outer Hebrides…
Highland Heroine Flora MacDonald famously helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape
from the Isle of Uist, following the defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746…
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) often referred to as Doctor Johnson,
literary giant of the 18th century – essayist, lexicographer,
poet, editor, critic, and famous talker – is the second
most quoted person in the English language, after Shakespeare.
In 1773, Johnson visited Flora MacDonald at her home on
the Isle of Skye. His comment appears in his 1775 book:
A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
Chapter 21: Dunvegan
A Google search done on the Internet on 12 February 2003, on the phrase
“Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland”, returned 1040 hits,
all referring to Johnson’s book, either as a modern reprint,
or as an old edition for sale (C$4500 for a copy of the 1775 edition),
or as an Internet location with the complete text available online.
Fort Edward Blockhouse, Windsor
The Flora MacDonald plaque is placed at the left side of the door.
Photographed 24 December 2003
Fort Edward Blockhouse, Windsor
The Flora MacDonald plaque is placed at the left side of the door.
Photographed 24 December 2003
Also see: Fort Edward blockhouse
Flora MacDonald
http://www.rampantscotland.com/famous/blfamflora.htm
Fionnghal (Flora) MacDonald
http://www.walkersshortbread.com/mix/bonnieprincecharles/
bonnieprincecharles.htm
The Story of Bonnie Prince Charlie and Flora MacDonald
http://www.slantsixstudios.com/mscda/FloraMacDonald.htm
Flora MacDonald
http://www.flodigarry.co.uk/flora_history.htm
The Scots, the English and racial discrimination
the Race Relations Act 1976
Scots Law News, “a pithy account of interesting, quirky
and important legal developments”
The University of Edinburgh, School of Law
…The Scots are a nation because of Bannockburn and Flodden,
Culloden and the pipes at Lucknow, because of Jenny Geddes
and Flora Macdonald, because of frugal living and
respect for learning, because of Robert Burns and Walter Scott…
http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/sln/index.asp?page=16
Flora MacDonald
http://www.isbuc.co.uk/People/FloMac.htm
Bonnie Prince Charlie, Culloden and God Save the King
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/
page/105.shtml?question=105
Flora Macdonald by Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_Macdonald
Bonnie Prince Charlie by Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_Prince_Charlie
Flora MacDonald
http://www.tartans.com/articles/famscots/floramacdonald.html
Flora MacDonald
http://scotlandvacations.com/flora.htm
Flora MacDonald
http://www.globalguide.org/scotland/south-uist/bonnie.html
Bonnie Prince Charlie books about Flora MacDonald
http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Charlie.html
Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir Stuart Bonnie Prince Charlie
http://www.isbuc.co.uk/People/BoPrCh.htm
Charles Edward Stuart
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/
usbiography/charlesedwardstuart/
The Escape of the Young Pretender
http://www.highlanderweb.co.uk/wallace/bonnie.htm
Who Was Bonnie Prince Charlie?
http://nc.essortment.com/whowasbonniep_rlhk.htm
Bonnie Prince Charlie
http://www.britainunlimited.com/Biogs/Charles.htm
Bonnie Prince Charlie
http://www.thecryptmag.com/Online/23/bonprincecha.html
Chapter 92: The Story of Flora MacDonald
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/
women/marshall/england/england-92.html
Bonnie Prince Charlie
http://www.s-h-systems.co.uk/tourism/edinburgh/
bonnie-prince-charlie.html
XCVII: Flora MacDonald Saint Croix Courier,
St. Stephen, New Brunswick, 28 December 1893
http://members.shaw.ca/caren.secord/locations/
NewBrunswick/Glimpses/XCVII.html
The Flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie
http://www.maybole.org/community/minishant/douglas/
flightofbonnieprincecharlie.htm
James VII (of Scotland), II (of England) (1633-1701)
Prince James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766)
Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788)
James VII/II
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/
britain/stu_james_mon.shtml
James VII/II
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page140.asp
James VII/II
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/
hutchinson/m0020037.html
Prince James Francis Edward Stuart The Old Pretender
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page144.asp
Prince Charles Edward Stuart (James IX/IV) The Young Pretender
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page145.asp
Prince Henry Benedict Stuart
http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page146.asp
The Glorious Revolution, 1689-1701
http://www.open2.net/civilwar/6.3.aftershocks.html
The Two Pretenders
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/
Scotland-History/TwoPretenders.htm
Reference (ink on paper)
From South Uist to Nova Scotia:
Flora Macdonald’s Unhappy Winter in Windsor
by Allen Robertson
Volume 17 number 6, Jan-Feb 2004
Celtic Heritage (magazine)
http://www.celticheritage.ns.ca/
