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The Battle of Glenshiel - The Jacobite Rising in 1719 (Paperback)
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The Battle of Glenshiel - The Jacobite Rising in 1719 (Paperback)
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Its tercentenary is approaching, but the battle of Glenshiel is not
well known. Glenshiel: The Jacobite Rising in 1719 therefore takes
a fresh view of this curious and remarkable, but part-forgotten
engagement. It was fought on 10 June 1719, during the long daylight
hours of a summer evening in the mountainous western Highlands of
Scotland. Glenshiel was the main and decisive engagement of the
1719 Jacobite rising, the fourth attempt by supporters in Scotland
to restore the exiled house of Stuart to the throne of the Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland. Led by a disunited group of clan
chieftains and Scots notables returned from Continental exile, the
Highlanders forming most of the Jacobite army at Glenshiel opposed
forces of the government of King George I. These included regular
soldiers of the British Army, as well as contingents of Highlanders
loyal to the Georgian regime. With Scots fighting on both sides,
the 1719 rising was on one hand a civil war, a continuation of the
Jacobite wars, a protracted period of intermittent political and
armed conflict affecting the British Isles from the late
seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries; and on the other hand
was an extension of the wider European war of the Quadruple
Alliance, ranging the powers of Great Britain, France, the
Netherlands and Imperial Austria against Spain. For these reasons a
battalion of white-coated Spanish infantry fought beside Jacobite
clansmen at Glenshiel, while there were Dutch infantrymen in the
opposing ranks of the government army. Glenshiel today remains a
remote place with a natural grandeur surpassing any other
historically identified British battlefield. Historians have paid
much less attention to the 1719 rising than to the much
better-known rebellions of 1715-16 and 1745-46. Indeed, the fullest
account of the 1719 rising was published as long ago as 1895.
Glenshiel: The Jacobite Rising in 1719 therefore takes a new and
long overdue view of the subject. The background and course of the
rising is considered in detail, making use of published and
archival sources to reconstruct the likely course of events.
Chapters on the leading figures, and on the opposing armed forces,
place the battle of Glenshiel within the contexts of the Jacobite
period, and of early eighteenth-century European warfare.
Extensively illustrated, including specially commissioned artwork,
Glenshiel: The Jacobite Rising in 1719 will appeal to readers drawn
to the Jacobite period and to early eighteenth-century military
history, to readers generally interested in Scottish and British
history, and to the particular interests of model makers, wargamers
and living history enthusiasts.
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