Editing Flora MacDonald (section)

{{Short description|Scottish Jacobite}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Flora MacDonald
| image              = Floramacdonald2.jpg
| alt                = Portrait of Flora Macdonald by the artist Allan Ramsay
| caption            = Flora Macdonald by [[Allan Ramsay (artist)|Allan Ramsay]] c. 1749–1750; the roses are a Jacobite symbol. [[Ashmolean Museum]], Oxford.
| birth_date         = {{birth year|1722}}
| birth_place        = [[Milton (Outer Hebrides)|Milton]], [[South Uist]], [[Scotland]]
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|1790|3|5|1722|df=y}}
| death_place        = [[Kingsburgh, Skye]]
|nationality         = Scottish
| known_for          = assisting the escape of [[Charles Edward Stuart]] 
| signature          = Appletons' McDonald Flora signature.png
}}
'''Flora MacDonald'''{{efn|{{langx|gd|'''Fionnghal nic Dhòmhnaill'''}}}} (1722 – 5 March 1790) is best known for helping [[Charles Edward Stuart]] evade government troops after the [[Battle of Culloden]] in April 1746. Her family had generally backed the government during the [[Jacobite rising of 1745|1745 Rising]], and MacDonald later claimed to have assisted Charles out of sympathy for his situation.

Arrested and held in the [[Tower of London]], she was released under a general amnesty in June 1747. She later married Allan MacDonald and the couple emigrated to [[North Carolina]] in 1773. Their support for the British government during the [[American War of Independence]] meant the loss of their American estates and they returned to Scotland, where she died in 1790.