The Confederates send around fifteen hundred men…

1644 CE

The Confederates send around fifteen hundred men under Alasdair MacColla to Scotland in 1644 to support the royalists there under James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, against the Covenanters, sparking a Civil War—their only intervention on the Royalist side in the civil wars in Britain.

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William Dobson: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (c. 1644), National Portrait Gallery, London

William Dobson: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (c. 1644), National Portrait Gallery, London

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Kilkenny Kilkenny Ireland View →

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Three Kingdoms, Wars of the View → Irish Rebellion, Great View → Irish Confederate Wars View → English Civil War, First, or Great View → Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms View →

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