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The Jacobite rising of 1689 was a conflict fought primarily in the Scottish Highlands, whose objective was to put James VII back on the throne, following his deposition by the November 1688 Glorious Revolution. Named after "Jacobus", the Latin for James, his supporters were known as 'Jacobites' and the associated political movement as Jacobitism.
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In 1714, he was briefly arrested under suspicion of Jacobite sympathies, but he was released in the autumn of 1714 after the friendly intercession of the Duke of Montrose. [ 2 ] The following year, on the breaking out of the Jacobite rising of 1715 , Macdonald was summoned by the Lord Advocate to appear at Edinburgh to swear allegiance to the ...
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Keppoch was the son of the 15th chief Archibald (Gilleasbuig) Macdonald and Mary Macmartin of the Macmartin Camerons.. The anti-Jacobite Whig historian Thomas Babington Macaulay mentioned Keppoch in his History of England, describing him as "an excellent specimen of the genuine Highland Jacobite [...] insulting and resisting the authority of the crown". [1]
Although the Jacobite rising of 1689 had largely been suppressed by May 1690, a continuing need to police the Highlands diverted military resources from the Nine Years' War in Flanders. In late 1690, clan leaders loyal to the exiled House of Stuart agreed to swear allegiance to William and Mary, in return for a cash payment of £12,000. However ...
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1689 1746 Jacobite Rebellions: England (until 1707) Great Britain (from 1707) Jacobites: Civil War, Royalist victory. in England, Scotland and Ireland Williamite War in Ireland (1688–91) - The Battle of the Boyne saw the last battle between two rival claimants for the throne; Jacobite rising of 1689 (1689-92) Jacobite rising of 1715 (1715–16)