After the Battle of Prestonpans, General Cope rallied the surviving remnants of his army at Dunbar. Cope himself had escaped the battlefield on horseback and arrived at Dunbar ahead of his own men, making him the object of the famous jest that he was the first general in history to bring news of his own defeat. Government dragoons who had fled the battlefield without fighting straggled into Dunbar. Jacobite cavalry patrols pursued as far as the town's outskirts, skirmishing with government rear-guards before withdrawing. Prince Charles chose not to press the pursuit to destruction — his army needed reorganisation and he was already planning the march south. The Dunbar garrison was reinforced and became a government foothold on the East Lothian coast.
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