An intercultural service of commemoration is then held inside the Covenanter Church. |
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To the last he protested that he was a real Covenanter as well as a loyal subject. |
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Although nominated to command the Covenanter forces mustered to combat the invading forces of Oliver Cromwell, Leven had retired from field service. |
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The United Presbyterian Church of North America was a small denomination formed in 1858 from Scottish Covenanter and Seceder traditions. |
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The standing army was mainly employed in the suppression of Covenanter rebellions and the guerilla war undertaken by the Cameronians in the East. |
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These systems would form the basis of the Covenanter armies that intervened in the Civil Wars in England and Ireland. |
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The disaster at Philiphaugh was largely due to the Royalists' own disunity and the return of the main Covenanter armies from England. |
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With his original Scottish Royalist followers and his new Covenanter allies, King Charles II became the greatest threat facing the new English republic. |
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A loophole which allowed evasion of this tax was closed in the Education Act of 1646, which established a solid institutional foundation for schools on Covenanter principles. |
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In the years after the Union of the Crowns in 1603, Galloway underwent radical change, during the War of the Three Kingdoms and Covenanter rebellion. |
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In 1680 a more extreme mood appeared among sections of the Covenanter underground, which found expression in a document known as the Sanquhar Declaration. |
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Cameron himself was killed in a clash with government forces at Airds Moss in July 1680, but his followers, now a tiny part of the Covenanter movement, continued to exist. |
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A covenant is a contract in which the covenanter makes a promise to a covenantee to do or not do some action. |
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