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.

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Glen Shiel Ross-shire United Kingdom View →

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George I of Great Britain View → Giulio Alberoni View → James Francis Edward Stuart View →

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Spain, Bourbon Kingdom of View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View →

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Jacobite Rebellion/Rising of 1719 ('The Nineteen') View → Glen Shiel, Battle of View →

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