Siege of Stirling Castle (1746)
| Siege of Stirling Castle | |||||||
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| Part of Jacobite rising of 1745 | |||||||
Stirling Castle | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| British Government | Jacobites | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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William Blakeney Duke of Cumberland (relief force) |
Charles Stuart James Drummond | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 8,000 – 9,000 | 700 | ||||||
The siege of Stirling Castle took place from 8 January to 1 February 1746, during the 1745 Rising, when a Jacobite force besieged Stirling Castle, held by a government garrison under William Blakeney.
Despite defeating a relief force under Henry Hawley at Falkirk Muir on 17 January, the siege made little progress; when Cumberland's army began advancing north from Edinburgh, it was abandoned and on 1 February the Jacobites withdrew to Inverness.