UID:
kobvindex_ZMS08056097
Format:
40 Seiten
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zahlr. Ill.
Edition:
Reprint
Series Statement:
Men-at-arms 118
Content:
In 1688 King James VII of Scotland and II of England and Ireland had been King for only three years - but already a lot of people disliked him. Most Protestants did not like being ruled by a Catholic King who did not get on well with his Parliaments. When his new Italian wife had a baby son, Prince James Francis, it seemed there was going to be a long line of Catholic kings just like James. Some English leaders asked James's grown up daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange (who was also her cousin!) to come over from the Netherlands to be King and Queen instead, because they were Protestants. They arrived with Dutch soldiers, but King James escaped to France.In Scotland a special Convention Parliament met in Edinburgh in March 1689. King James and King William had sent letters to the convention so the members could choose who they wanted to be king. They chose William. Already King William III of England, he became William II of Scots. But not everyone was happy with this. James had supporters who called themselves JACOBITES, from Jacobus, which is Latin for James. One Jacobite, General John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, rode out of Edinburgh in protest, with 50 followers, and began a rebellion. He raised King James' banner on Dundee Law and gathered an army in the Highlands. He beat a government army led by a Highlander, General Hugh Mackay of Scourie, in the battle of KILLIECRANKIE on 27 July 1689, but was fatally wounded. Less than a month later the Jacobite army was turned back at DUNKELD by only 800 government troops in a fierce battle. King James, with French help, had invaded Ireland, but King William defeated him there too so he retired to France where he died in 1701.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Historische Darstellung
;
Historische Darstellung
Author information:
Embleton, Gerry
