Allan Stewart (Jacobite)

Allan Stewart (Jacobite)

Ailean Breac StiĆ¹bhart (c. 1711-c. 1791) was an 18th-century soldier and Scottish Jacobite resistance figure. He was a central figure in a murder case that inspired novels by Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Read more about Allan Stewart (Jacobite):  Life and The Appin Murder, Portrayal in Historical Fiction

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