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Forty-five
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forty-five
English
The +
Alternative forms
'45
Pronunciation
en aɪv 3
Proper noun
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en historical The Jacobite rising of 1745.
en 1893 Scottish Notes and Queries 158 Kingshouse, in the Blackmount, and Finlarig Castle, at the west end of Loch Tay, were both garrisoned during the ’45.
en 2001 w:Arthur L. Herman The Scottish Enlightenment 142 Harper Perennial 2006 In the sharpest sense, the Forty-five was not a war between Scots and Englishmen, but a civil war.
en 2012 Andrew Lang A Short History of Scotland Space does not permit an account of the assimilation of Scotland to England in the years between the Forty-five and our own time […].