Sir John Cope
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 27 Jul
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English commanding officer opposing the Jacobite rising in Scotland
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentRonald Leslie (narrator/reader) — LibriVox reader (Unknown specific volunteer)King Lear · Bonnie Prince Charlie a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden - G A ... · 6:54:29 · 27 Jul
…Sir John Cope, who had received intelligence of all that had happened at Edinburgh, had also moved forward on the nineteenth, and on the twentieth the two armies came in sight of each other.…
Ronald Leslie (narrator/reader) — LibriVox reader (Unknown specific volunteer)King Lear · Bonnie Prince Charlie a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden - G A ... · 6:49:53 · 27 Jul
…Sir John Cope, finding that his march to Inverness had failed to draw the prince after him, and had left the lowlands and the capital open to the insurgents, directed his march to Aberdeen and sent the Edinburgh for transports to bring down his army to cover that city.…
Ronald Leslie (narrator/reader) — LibriVox reader (Unknown specific volunteer)King Lear · Bonnie Prince Charlie a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden - G A ... · 6:40:08 · 27 Jul
…Sir John Cope, the English officer commanding the English forces in Scotland, at the first rumour of troubles, had ordered his troops to assemble at Stirling.…
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