The Jacobites, with France at peace with…
June 1719 CE
The Jacobites, with France at peace with Britain and enjoying a rapprochement due to the Anglo-French Alliance, find a new ally in Spain's Minister to the King, Cardinal Giulio Alberoni.
An invasion force sets sail in 1719 with two frigates to land in Scotland to raise the clans.
Twenty-seven ships carry five thousand soldiers to England, but the latter are dispersed by storms before they can land.
When the two Spanish frigates successfully land a party of Jacobites led by Lord Tullibardine and Earl Marischal with three hundred Spanish soldiers at Loch Duich, they hold Eilean Donan Castle.
They meet only lukewarm support from a few clans.
The Spanish soldiers are forced at the Battle of Glen Shiel to surrender to government forces.