Excerpt from The Life and Character of Flora McDonald In the meantime, the Chevalier St. George had married Cle mentina, grand-daughter of John Sobieski, the heroic king of Poland, by whom he had a son, Charles Edward, born in 1720, the hero of the Rebellion of 1745, and one other son, known in history as the Cardinal de York. The Chevalier, or James himself, says Chambers, was a man of weak character, to which the failure of his attempt in 1715 is mainly to be attributed. But the blood of Sobieski seems to have corrected that quality in his eldest son, whose daring and talent, as displayed in 1745-6, did everything but retrieve the fortunes of his family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.