Manchester Regiment (Jacobite)

The Manchester Regiment was a Jacobite unit raised during the 1745 Rebellion and the only significant number of English recruits willing to fight for Charles Edward Stuart in his attempt to regain the British throne for his father. Raised in late November 1745, the majority were captured in December at Carlisle; eleven officers and sixteen members of the rank and file were executed in 1746, over a quarter of all those executed for their role in the Rising.

For the later British Army unit, see Manchester Regiment.

The Manchester Regiment
Personal standard of Charles Stuart
Active1745–1746
Country Jacobite
TypeInfantry
SizeOne battalion, maximum 300 men
Engagements1745 Jacobite Rising
Clifton Moor Skirmish
2nd Siege of Carlisle
Commanders
Colonel of
the Regiment		Francis Towneley
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