Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Carlisle (Rebellion of the Forty-five).

This city was besieged by the Jacobites under the Young Pretender, November 9, 1745, and was defended by the Cumberland and Westmoreland Militia, with small force of regulars, under Colonel Durand. The besiegers opened fire on the 13th, and on the evening of the 14th, under pressure of the inhabitants, Durand surrendered.