the Jacobite party, remaining loyal to the deposed James II. Following the Jacobite defeat in Ireland and a period of imprisonment in England, Maxwell entered...
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William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale (1676 – 2 March 1744), was a Roman Catholic member of the Scottish nobility who took part in the Jacobite rising...
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(1890–1968), U.S. Army major general Thomas Maxwell (Jacobite) (d. 1693), Scottish-born French Army major general William Maxwell (Continental Army general) (1733–1796)...
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Jacobitism (redirect from Jacobite Rebellions)
the Stuarts themselves. Conflict between Prince Charles and Scottish Jacobites over the Acts of Union 1707 and divine right seriously undermined the...
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is also the name of: Thomas Maxwell (cricketer) (1903–1970) Thomas Maxwell (Jacobite) (died 1693), Scottish soldier Tom Maxwell (guitarist) (born 1968)...
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The Jacobite Army, sometimes referred to as the Highland Army, was the military force assembled by Charles Edward Stuart and his Jacobite supporters during...
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Williamite War in Ireland (redirect from Jacobite War in Ireland)
Williamite War in Ireland took place from March 1689 to October 1691. Fought by Jacobite supporters of James II and his successor, William III, it resulted in a...
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Charles MacCarthy More (category Irish Jacobites)
August 1689 the Jacobite commander of the area Thomas Maxwell decided to withdraw most of his soldiers southwards towards Newry. Maxwell appointed MacCarthy...
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under his uncle Rev. Edmund Hay William Hay, 6th Earl of Kinnoull Thomas Maxwell, Jacobite, educated at Douai before moving to Madrid James Carruthers, priest...
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The Jacobite peerage includes those peerages created by James II and VII, and the subsequent Jacobite pretenders, after James's deposition from the thrones...
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the bridge on the same day. The Jacobite forces in the western half of Athlone, led by Major-General Thomas Maxwell, a Scottish Catholic, initially held...
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Battle of Preston (1715) (category Battles of the Jacobite rising of 1715)
in place of George I. After two days of street-fighting, the Jacobite commander Thomas Forster surrendered to government troops under General Charles...
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James Drummond, 3rd Duke of Perth (category Jacobite military personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745)
1746) was a Scottish landowner best known for his participation in the Jacobite rising of 1745, during which Charles Edward Stuart attempted to regain...
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William Gordon, 6th Viscount of Kenmure (category Marquesses in the Jacobite peerage)
Kenmure and Lord Lochinvar (c. 1672 – 24 February 1716) was a Scottish Jacobite. William Gordon was the only son of Alexander Gordon, 5th Viscount of Kenmure...
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William Herbert, 1st Marquess of Powis (category Dukes in the Jacobite peerage)
Winifred, married William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, who was condemned to death for high treason for participating in the Jacobite rising of 1715. Lady...
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a belief that was only heightened in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1715 in Scotland. Maxwell was elected to sit for Donegal Borough, again under Connolly's...
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Drogheda. Francis Towneley and several other captured Jacobite officers involved in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 were executed, but by then the executioner...
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of his cavalry and dragoos, with Major-Generals Patrick Sarsfield, Thomas Maxwell, Anthony and John Hamilton, and Alexander Rainier, the Marquis of Boisseleau...
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and his grandson Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie"). These "Jacobite baronetcies" were never accepted by the English Crown, have all disappeared...
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Williamite forces in both the north-west and north-east, the Jacobite commander in the north Thomas Maxwell ordered a withdrawal towards Newry. At Carrickfergus...
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Donald Cameron of Lochiel (category Jacobite military personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745)
26 October 1748), popularly known as the Gentle Lochiel, was a Scottish Jacobite, soldier and hereditary chief of Clan Cameron, traditionally loyal to the...
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executed at Tower Hill as a Jacobite Rebel James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater (1716) – executed at Tower Hill as a Jacobite Rebel Arthur Elphinstone...
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the descendants of Sir William's second son became the Earls. During the Jacobite rising of 1745 the main part of Clan Cochrane supported the British government...
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for his part in the 1745 Jacobite rising Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, for his part in the 1745 Jacobite rising William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale...
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Regiment formed part of General Thomas Whetham's left wing. Confused troop movements led to both it and the Jacobite left being weaker than the corresponding...
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Lebanon. The Jacobite tradition is employed in the Syriac Orthodox Church based in Syria and its Maphrianate in India known as Jacobite Syrian Christian...
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Although greatly outnumbered, the regiment managed to defeat a larger Jacobite force at the Battle of Dunkeld. The regiment was victorious under the command...
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series of Jacobite uprisings sought to remove the Protestant House of Hanover from the throne and restore the Catholic House of Stuart. The Jacobites were...
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The Church of Scotland synod had decided in the year of the attempted Jacobite invasion, 1708, to collect accounts of persecution under the Stuart monarchs...
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John Murray of Broughton (category People of the Jacobite rising of 1745)
Scottish baronet, who served as Jacobite Secretary of State during the 1745 Rising. As such, he was responsible for Jacobite civilian administration, and...
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