The Forty-Five
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The Forty-Five may refer to:
- The forty-five guardsThe forty-five guardsThe Forty-five guards were forty-five guards recruited by the Duke of Épernon to provide Henri III of France with trusted protection in the midst of the War of the Three Henrys....
, a bodyguard of Henri III and Henri IV of France - The Forty-Five, the 1745 Jacobite rebellionJacobite Rising of 1745The Jacobite rising of 1745, often referred to as "The 'Forty-Five," was the attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart. The rising occurred during the War of the Austrian Succession when most of the British Army was on the European continent...
in Scotland and England