Forty-five

See also: forty-five

English

Alternative forms

• '45

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪv

Proper noun

the Forty-five

1. (historical) The Jacobite rising of 1745.
   • 1893, Scottish Notes and Queries, page 158:

     Kingshouse, in the Blackmount, and Finlarig Castle, at the west end of Loch Tay, were both garrisoned during the ’45.

   • 2001, Arthur L. Herman, The Scottish Enlightenment, Harper Perennial, published 2006, page 142:

     In the sharpest sense, the Forty-five was not a war between Scots and Englishmen, but a civil war.

   • 2012, Andrew Lang, A Short History of Scotland:

     Space does not permit an account of the assimilation of Scotland to England in the years between the Forty-five and our own time […].