The rearguard action at Clifton village as the Jacobite army retreated from Derby toward Scotland. Highlanders under Cluny MacPherson and the Glengarry men fought off Cumberland's pursuing dragoons in a night action among enclosures and lanes. One of the last Jacobite actions on English soil. Lord George Murray directed the action brilliantly. Sometimes referred to as separate from Clifton Moor.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near Westmorland