On this day in 1746, Bonnie Prince Charlie left Scotland after the 1745 Jacobite Rising, never to return. This simple monument overlooking Loch nan Uamh is the Prince's Cairn and as the inscription explains, marks the traditional spot where Prince Charles Edward Stuart boarded the ship. He sailed away in a French frigate, leaving behind the dream of restoring the Stuart dynasty to the British throne. It had been five long months after his army was defeated at Culloden and 14 months since he step

The basement of Carlisle Castle's keep in the city of Carlisle, Cumbria, England. These rooms were mainly used for storage, but it is said that during the Jacobite Rising of 1745/46, they were used to hold Jacobite prisoners. The prisoners were crammed together in complete darkness, so the story goes, and were so dehydrated that they licked the moisture from the stones. On the back wall of the inner chamber are the so-called "licking stones" (picture in comments) | International Man of History