The Daily Mail (London, England), October 30th, 2007
Byline: Jonathan Brocklebank A CHARISMATIC soldier, he led armies across Europe and broke the heartof the Russian Tsarina. But while he is celebrated across the Continent, he remains little known in hishomeland. Now, 250 years after his death, Jacobite exile James Keith is to be honoured inthe village where he was killed fighting for Frederick the Great's Prussia. A statue in his home town of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, is one of the fewScottish acknowledgements of his impact on history. But a new monument is to beerected next year in Hochkirch, where Keith was shot dead in 1758 as he rallie...
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