Siege of Stirling Castle (1746)

Siege of Stirling Castle
Part of Jacobite rising of 1745
Stirling Castle
Date 18 January to 1 February 1746 Location Stirling, Scotland, Great Britain Result British victory
Belligerents
British Government	Jacobites
Commanders and leaders
William Blakeney Duke of Cumberland (relief force)	Charles Stuart James Drummond
Strength
8,000 – 9,000	700

The siege of Stirling Castle took place from 8 January to 1 February 1746, during the 1745 Rising, when a Jacobite force besieged Stirling Castle, held by a government garrison under William Blakeney.

Despite defeating a relief force under Henry Hawley at Falkirk Muir on 17 January, the siege made little progress; when Cumberland's army began advancing north from Edinburgh, it was abandoned and on 1 February the Jacobites withdrew to Inverness.