Posted on 12/24/2023 8:33:04 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
Edinburgh, Scotland held a Christmas Eve 1715 hanging of a soldier for abortive plot in the abortive Jacobite rising of 1715
The plot was a bold conspiracy of Highlanders to seize Edinburgh Castle itself, which would have been every bit the coup it sounds like. Sergeant William Ainslie and two other soldiers of the garrison had been bribed to admit the plotters via a sally port.
Once there, the Highlanders meant to seize the castle’s ample stock of weapons and cash, and also “fire three cannon; that when this signal should be heard by some men stationed on the opposite coast of Fife, a fire should be kindled on the heights; and that these beacons, continued northward from hill to hill, should, with the speed of a telegraph, apprise Mar of his advantage.”....
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For the Jacobites, the war was just about over by Christmas Eve, 1715. They had lost the battles of Preston and Sheriffmuir, and their army, which at one time rivalled the government forces, had dissipated. The war had been winnable, but their commander, the Earl of Mar, was incompetent.
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We lost that battle but won the war...Gordon Douglas. We came here in chains.
Overall the Stuarts were perhaps the worst ruling family in all British history. The Hannoverians may have been ill tempered Germans, but they were Protestants willing to let Parliament mostly run things. The English were never going to let a bunch of Frenchified Scots take over.
Bkmk
Dude didn't want a German to rule Scotland (or any other nationality either, I know what Jacobite means). But still, a guy from Hanover?
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