Battle of Falkirk II - 1746

Battle of Falkirk II - 1746

Hanoverians: Henry Hawley

Jacobites: Charles Edward Stuart  Lord George Murray

Result: Jacobite victory

During the Second Jacobite Rising, the Battle of Falkirk Muir was the last noteworthy Jacobite success.

After turning back from Derby, for want of either any significant support from English Jacobites or a French invasion, the Jacobite Army returned to Scotland and besieged Major General Blakeney in Stirling Castle. Lieutenant General Henry Hawley led his troops from Edinburgh to relieve Blakeney. The Jacobite army was 8,000 strong, the largest assembled throughout the Rising. They were pitched against a regular Hanoverian army. The battle itself was a hectic and scrambling affair, fought in a storm of wind and torrential rain, so confusing that neither side was initially aware of the outcome.