SCENARIO BATTLE OF PRESTON PANS AND COLLUDON

SCENE SETTING: DATE: 17 September 1745 LOCATION: (Fort Selwyn) Preston Pans (near Edinburgh) RESULT: Scottish Jacobite V English Forces COMMANDERS & REBEL LEADERS: ENGLISH: Sir Johnny Cope and untested soldiers from Fort Augustus The Butcher Duke of Cumberland with battle hardened soldiers SCOTTISH LEADER: Bonnie Prince Charlie, Charles Stuart and George Murrey BATTLE TERRAIN: Fort Selwyn and adjacent grounds facing downhill towards town to be marked off with danger tape. BATTLE EVENT AND ENGAGEMENTS: 1) English soldiers march into fort with their General Johnnie Cope -The men are dismissed and some are put onto sentry detail. Sentries climb on battlement and march up and down.

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Sentry spots Scottish, challenges them and then fires at them The Scot shows no fear, shows their standard and shouts insults at the English Bonnie Prince Charlie gives speech to rally the Scots at Glen Finnan 19 August: I have the right of the crown and bring Freedom to the Scottish people . I will be the conqueror of the English or die at their head General Johnny Cope is much angered by taunts and orders his men to march out of Fort Augustus to nip the rebellion in the bud. Tries to rally the Scottish crowd (audience ) to join him but no one does. He sends two soldiers out with reward posters to find Bonnie Prince Charlie. The English set up a base camp. The artillery arrive a bit later disguised as tradesmen as they lost their way. (The Scot hides near fort wall and watches all activities)

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The Scot then goes to Edinburgh Castle(Selwyn) , tricks the sentry on duty and ties him up, and in so doing captures the deserted fort. He raises the Scottish standard and the Nations flag. The English soldiers at the camp practice military drills and volley firing (crowd pleaser lots of action)

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The two English soldiers designated to hand out posters decide to go to a nearby Inn at Preston Pans. The Scottish barmaid makes them drunk who calls the Scotsmen to tie them up and strip them. The English Drill team form up and march off to search for Bonnie Prince Charlie while Johnny Copes men go to sleep at the base camp. They are young and inexperienced men and do not leave a guard out.

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The two men from the tavern are released and they scamper back to base in their long johns with the Union Jacks sewn onto their backsides. The second unit march back up to the fort and free the guard and load their muskets.

7) BATTLE OF PRESTON PANS. The English camp is asleep. The Scots move from Preston Pans Inn towards the camp. A smoke screen is activated to symbolize the early Scottish mist on the moor. One of the gunners hear the bagpipes (Scotland the Brave/ The Braes of Killkrombie) He calls his men to arms realizing they are under attack. The gun is fired and all gunners flee from the camp. The soldiers in panic also flee. General Cope tries to rally his men, fails, flees and overtakes all his men, to arrive at the fort first. Berwick-Upon-Tweed. At the forts gate he is met by Lord Mark Kerr who congratulated him of being the first general to carry the tidings of his own defeat.

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The SECOND JACOBITE RISING END AT CULLODEN *Bagpipes(hey Johnny Cope are ye waking yet) The scot does a victory dance over swords and plunders the English Camp. finds Copes treasure chest. The campsite is littered with redcoats and goods. The Cumberland redcoat army is much angered by Johnny Copes defeat. They march out of the fort to do battle They go out in full battle order and these are hardened soldiers. They fan out in extended order and are supported by the Hanoverian artillery. The 2 sides size each other up. The redcoats fire a volley with the support of the gunners. They are ordered to bayonet charge. The Scot Betty Burke changes into Bonnie Prince Charlie outfit and makes out that she is Bonnie Prince Charlie

The Redcoats form a large circle around pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie. They march towards her in a tight circle pointing their bayonets at shoulder height. She is trapped like a rat and spins around tapping the bayonets with the puny sword. She is recognized by one of the soldiers as not being Bonnie Prince Charlie but actually Betty Burke a serving maid of Charles Stuart. She is disarmed and tied to the cannon wheel to be flogged An order is given by Cumberland to bayonet all the wounded and prisoners. The soldiers carry out the atrocities on the imaginary wounded. Betty Burke begs them to stop and calls Cumberland a Butcher and curses him that he will always be known to the Scottish people as that. The RSM orders the cat-o-nine-tails to be brought to him to flog Betty. The soldiers form a protective ring around the cannon kneeling with the bayonets facing outwards. As the RSM is about to flog her an artillery officer disgusted by the soldiers actions shouts out: There has been enough killing we are soldiers not butchers We must hunt down Bonnie prince Charlie!let her be she is the loser! The soldiers form up, untie her and march her off to the fort. She is dragged along and thrown in front of the crowd and left to mourn the defeat of the Scottish clans. As the soldiers reach the bridge of the fort they halt and face the crowd. . A lone Scot climbs onto the parapet and plays a tribute to the fallen Amazing Grace

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