biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1722–90)
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| biography:
| Scottish heroine, born in South Uist, Western Isles, W Scotland, UK. After the rebellion of 1745, she conducted the Young Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart, disguised as ‘Betty Burke’, to safety in Skye. For this she was imprisoned in the Tower of London, but released in 1747. She married in 1750, and in 1774 emigrated to North Carolina, where her husband fought in the War of Independence. When he was captured, Flora returned to Scotland in 1779, and her husband rejoined her there in 1781. |
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