Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Akakwidziridzwa kuva Brigadier-General muna Chikunguru, chikwata chake chaive pakati pevashandi vakatumirwa kuBritain muna Mbudzi panguva ye 1745 Rising uye vakashanda muScotland pasi paHenry Hawley. Mukutanga kwaJanuary 1746, vaJacobite vakakomba Stirling Castle; musi wa13, Hawley akarayira varume 4 000 vaitungamirirwa naCholmondeley naJohn Huske kuti vaende kuchamhembe kuFalkirk kunoribatsira, vachimutevera nevamwe varume 3 000. Hondo yeFalkirk
kwakatanga mumasikati makuru aJanuary 17 muchiedza chinokundikana uye kwakaratidzirwa nokuvhiringidzika uye kutonga kukundikana kumativi ose ari maviri. Dutu rechando rakasimba rakatanga sezvo mapoka akaiswa, zvichiita kuti kurongeka kuve kwakaoma zvikuru; kuruboshwe kwehurumende kwakadzingwa asi brigade yaCholmondeley kurudyi yakabata nzvimbo yavo uye yakadzivirira kubudirira kukuru kweJacobite.