Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Jacobitism [c] was a political ideology advocating the restoration of the Catholic House of Stuart to the British throne.When James II of England chose exile after the November 1688 Glorious Revolution, the Parliament of England ruled he had "abandoned" the English throne, which was given to his Protestant daughter Mary II of England, and her husband William III. [1]
Pages in category "People of the Jacobite rising of 1689" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and ...
The Battle of Killiecrankie, [a] also known as the Battle of Rinrory, took place on 27 July 1689 during the 1689 Scottish Jacobite rising.An outnumbered Jacobite force under Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel and John Graham, Viscount Dundee, defeated a government army commanded by General Hugh Mackay.
The Battle of Dunkeld (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Dhùn Chaillinn) was fought between Jacobite clans supporting the deposed king James VII of Scotland and a regiment of covenanters supporting William of Orange, King of Scotland, in the streets around Dunkeld Cathedral, Dunkeld, Scotland, on 21 August 1689 and formed part of the Jacobite rising of 1689, commonly called Dundee's rising in Scotland.
The 1689–1691 Jacobite Rising forced William to make concessions to the Presbyterians, ended Episcopacy in Scotland and excluded a significant portion of the political class. Many later returned to the Kirk but Non-Juring Episcopalianism was the key determinant of Jacobite support in 1715 and 1745 .
Battles of the Jacobite rising of 1689 (1 C) P. People of the Jacobite rising of 1689 (14 P) W. Williamite War in Ireland (3 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Jacobite ...
Sir Donald Macdonald, 4th Baronet (1650 – March 1718) was a Scottish Jacobite soldier and Chief of Clan Macdonald of Sleat. [1] He was known as Dòmhnall a' Chogaidh ("Donald of the War") and, after 1716, as Lord Sleat in Jacobite circles. [2]