More than 150 people cheered on battle re-enactors in Swarkestone yesterday.
Dressed in period uniforms and using replica weapons, 'soldiers' re-enacted the Jacobite uprising of 1745 at Swarkestone Bridge.
The uprising was the attempt by Charles Edward Stuart – or Bonnie Prince Charlie – to regain the Scottish throne for the exiled House of Stuart.
He sailed to Scotland and raised the Jacobite standard at Glenfinnan in the Scottish Highlands, where he was supported by a gathering of Highland clansmen.
The march south began with an initial victory at Prestonpans, near Edinburgh.
The Jacobite army marched onwards to Carlisle, over the border in England.
When they reached Derby, some British divisions were recalled from the Continent and the Jacobite army retreated north to Inverness where the last battle on Scottish soil took place on a nearby moor at Culloden, where the Jacobites were defeated.
The bridge on the River Trent marks the furthest southerly point the Jacobite army reached in 1745.
