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Sentence Examples She was named after Prince Charlie and was a great Jacobite, of which I'm very proud. No Jacobite before 1716, he was driven to Jacobite intrigue by one-party tyranny and Whig Erastianism. We don't know for sure but recent evidence points to a Jacobite safe house in Stirling. Since the main part of the Jacobite army never engaged the enemy, losses were relatively light. The Jacobite forces were well entrenched and kept up a steady bombardment of the city, which shredded the defences inside the walls. With the arrival of the Norsemen wooden galleys and birlinns became the common transport and these stayed in use until the Jacobite rebellion. The Settler was an unreconstructed Jacobite who fled to Maryland in the dark days following the Glorious Revolution. Bank of Scotland had a reputation for being a Jacobite bank, warm to the prospects of Stuarts back on the throne. But baronial powers were largely abolished after the 1745 Jacobite rebellion. In his bonnet the champion sports a cockade neither of Jacobite white nor of Hanoverian black. Meanwhile Claverhouse had raised a Jacobite force of 2,000 Highland clansmen. In Jacobite times, targes were the highlanders' main means of defence in battle. In his bonnet the champion sports a cockade not of Jacobite white or Hanoverian black. After the Jacobite rebellion failed Rob continued his brigandry, and had his finger in more than one illegal pie. A battle took place on 30 April, 1690, in which a Jacobite force was routed on the low ground at Cromdale in Morayshire by government forces. Hanoverian artillery cut the Jacobite troops to pieces, and Culloden was a slaughter. Jacobite hopes centred on the facts that Britain was heavily engaged in the War of the AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION, and that the Hanoverians had never been popular. Jacobite risings took place in 1715 and 1745, though both were defeated. This year, we made the journey to Mallaig by car, enjoying the beautiful scenery, and even catching a glimpse of the Jacobite train as she puffed her way north. The Coptic church was a sister-church of the Jacobite church of Syria. Show More Sentences Most had, understandably assumed that Jacobite glass objects had solid provenances and that those who had written on the subject had done so after having done their research. The Jacobite story was one of history's longest running spy sagas. In 1715, Jacobite rebels were defeated at the battle of Preston. The Jacobite general, Lord George Murray, and the Council of War insisted on returning to join their growing force in Scotland. The bulk of the Jacobite army was made up of Highlanders and most of its strength was volunteers. One of the fundamental problems with the Jacobite army was the lack of trained officers. Fitzjames' Horse was the only Jacobite cavalry unit to fight the whole battle on horseback. The Jacobite artillery has been generally regarded as being ineffective in the battle. On the outbreak of the Jacobite rising, extra incentives were given to lure recruits to fill the ranks of depleted units. However, two major Jacobite Risings launched in 1715 and 1745 failed to remove the House of Hanover from the British throne. By then, many Jacobite soldiers had dispersed in search of food, while others were asleep in ditches and outbuildings. While this was taking place, Hawley began making his way through the Culwhiniac Parks intending to outflank the Jacobite right wing. When the Macdonalds charged, their progress was much slower than that of the rest of the Jacobite forces. However, by the time they had been brought into position, the Jacobite army was in rout. Most of this legislation was repealed by the end of the 18th century as the Jacobite threat subsided. The aftermath of the decisive Battle of Culloden, which effectively ended Jacobite hopes of a Stuart restoration, was widely felt. During the 18th century Jacobite Risings, Orkney was largely Jacobite in its sympathies. On leave, he meets his uncle's friend, the Jacobite Baron Bradwardine and is attracted to the Baron's daughter Rose. Without his leadership the Jacobite army was soon defeated at the Battle of Dunkeld. When his brother, Henry, Cardinal of York, died in 1807, the Jacobite cause was at an end. Show More Sentences The restoration of Charles II was not without incident, and with the Act of Settlement in 1701, came the Jacobite uprisings. In the subsequent Jacobite rising, the Cameronian Guard helped to defeat the Jacobite Highlanders, particularly at the Battle of Dunkeld. In the aftermath of the first Jacobite Rising in 1715, Highlanders had begun emigrating to the Americas in increasing numbers. When the Jacobite cause fails in 1746, Talbot intervenes to get Edward a pardon. Not long after the exhausted Jacobite forces had made it back to Culloden, reports came of the advancing government troops. After the Restoration, many inhabitants of the Northumbrian region supported the Jacobite cause. To this William consented as it would purify his army of Jacobite elements. After the defeat of the Jacobite forces by the Williamites at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690, James returned to France. Jacobite supporters displayed pictures of both Cavalier and Jacobite heroes in their homes. However, many Episcopalians were quiet about any Jacobite sympathies and were able to accommodate themselves to the new regime. Another source of Jacobite support came from those dissatisfied with political developments. In these neighbourhoods Jacobite wares such as inscribed glassware, brooches with hidden symbols and tartan waistcoats were popular. The plot of the story concerns a group of Jacobite sympathisers paying a visit to an aged Bonnie Prince Charlie towards the end of his life. Broster wrote the Jacobite Trilogy of novels featuring the dashing hero Ewen Cameron. The Outlander novel series, written by Diana Gabaldon, and its TV adaptation take place during pivotal battles in the Jacobite uprising. Since Henry's death, none of the Jacobite heirs have claimed the English or Scottish thrones. For example, the Parisian lodge that met in the mid 1720s was composed of English Jacobite exiles. Theatres had been discouraged by the Church of Scotland and fears of Jacobite assemblies. There were at least three sieges of Carlisle fought between England and Scotland, and two further sieges during the Jacobite risings. The major Jacobite risings were called the Jacobite rebellions by the ruling governments. Show More Sentences News in July of William's victory over James at the Battle of the Boyne caused Jacobite hopes to fall. By the spring of 1692, the Jacobite chiefs had all sworn allegiance to King William. By its end in October 1691, the Irish Jacobite army left Ireland for France, becoming the Irish Brigade. From France, as part of widespread Jacobite plotting, James Stuart, the Old Pretender, had been corresponding with the Earl of Mar. Mar sent a Jacobite force under Brigadier William Mackintosh of Borlum to join them. The Jacobite army of under six thousand men had set out and an army under General George Wade assembled at Newcastle. A Scotsman who was in the Jacobite army and therefore an eyewitness, wrote home that 60 English recruits had joined in just one day at Preston. Sheriffmuir, the site of the 1715 battle of the Jacobite rising is on the northern slopes of the hills. In 1746, the retreating Jacobite army was billeted for a night in Cumbernauld village. Following the unsuccessful Jacobite Rising of 1745 the government took the opportunity of overhauling county government. The fortifications continued to play a strategic military role during the 18th century Jacobite Risings. The Bank of Scotland was effective in raising funds for the Jacobite Rebellion. The most effective fighters for Jacobitism were the supporting Scottish clans, leading to an association of tartans with the Jacobite cause. Traditional examples of such are Black Watch, Caledonian, Hunting Stewart, and Jacobite tartans. In the summer the Jacobite steam train service from Fort William visits Mallaig. During the Jacobite Rising of 1715, Lancelot Errington, one of a number of locals who supported the Jacobite cause, visited the castle. He may also have expected some defections by English captains with Jacobite sympathies, though in this he was to be disappointed. This contrasted with rural Northumberland, which largely supported the Jacobite cause. During the Jacobite rising of 1745 his connections got him the job of assistant to the royal recruiting sergeant in the Knaresborough area. In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, Charles Stuart and his army marched through Macclesfield as they attempted to reach London. Show More Sentences On a Jacobite perspective, on his father's death in 1701 the duchy of Cornwall was merged in the Crown. In the later 1690s Rewse became a successful thief-taker, reaping large rewards for the capture of Jacobite conspirators, clippers, and coiners. The war was marked by the military leadership of notable generals like the duc de Villars, the Jacobite Duke of Berwick, the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy. In June, French planners agreed that a separate, smaller force would be sent to Scotland to try and gain Jacobite support, and crush British resistance in a pincer movement. Numerous Highland Jacobite supporters, captured in the aftermath of Culloden and rigorous Government sweeps of the Highlands, were imprisoned on ships on the River Thames. A number of flaws in the plan had also become apparent, including the fact that claims of the number of Jacobite supporters were now considered wildly optimistic. The Highland clans held out until the 18th century Jacobite risings. During the Jacobite Risings, they provided the bulk of Jacobite manpower. In Scotland, the Jacobite cause became intertwined with the clan system. Although only a minority of Tories gave their adhesion to the Jacobite risings, this was used by the Whigs to discredit the Tories and paint them as traitors. His task was, it is true, made easier by the need of the English to remove troops to put down the 1745-6 Jacobite Rising, which the French had subventioned. The threat of the Jacobite movement to the United Kingdom and its monarchs effectively ended at the Battle of Culloden, Great Britain's last pitched battle. When the Jacobite army marches south through the North of England, they are greeted with distrust rather than the anticipated support from English Jacobites or Tories. The highlanders rescue him from his escort and take him to the Jacobite stronghold at Doune Castle, then on to Holyrood Palace, where he meets Bonnie Prince Charlie himself. The Murrays of Scone where Jacobite, and along with their Atholl cousins were strong supporters of the exiled Stuart Monarchs of Great Britain and Ireland. The Act of Settlement later brought about Jacobite uprisings. John Erskine, Earl of Mar, raised the Jacobite clans in the Highlands. Through Flora, Waverley meets Bonnie Prince Charlie, and under her influence goes over to the Jacobite side and takes part in the Battle of Prestonpans. The common Jacobite supporters fared better than the ranking individuals. While in Inverness, Cumberland emptied the gaols that were full of people imprisoned by Jacobite supporters, replacing them with Jacobites themselves. Show More Sentences After the failure of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, Flora MacDonald became famous for rescuing Prince Charles Edward Stuart from the Hanoverian troops. Located on the Jacobite extreme left wing were the Macdonald regiments. On 6 September 1715, John Erskine, Earl of Mar raised the Jacobite standard at Braemar, instigating the 1715 rising against the Hanoverian Succession. In 1746, following Jacobite insurrections, the Heritable Jurisdictions Act abolished regality, and forbade the position of sheriff from being inherited. One account of that night even records that Perth and Drummond made contact with government troops before realising the rest of the Jacobite force had turned home. The history of the Jacobite risings has inspired many stories and songs. The Jacobite army then turned north, losing men and failing to take Stirling Castle or Fort William but taking Fort Augustus and Fort George in Inverness by early April. Cope's army got supplies from Inverness then sailed from Aberdeen down to Dunbar to meet the Jacobite forces near Prestonpans to the east of Edinburgh. Both colleges supported the Jacobite rebellion and following the defeat of the 1715 rising were largely purged by the authorities of their academics and officials. The Jacobite force marched south from Glenfinnan, increasing to almost 3,000 men, though two chieftains insisted on pledges of compensation before joining. Approximately 600 Highlanders were killed, plus a number of Jacobite Lowlanders including Dundee himself, Pitcur of Haliburton, and Gilbert Ramsay. Clan support, their remoteness from authority and the ready mobilisation of the clan hosts made the Highlands the starting point for the Jacobite Risings. Many clan chiefs, such as those of the Clan Mackenzie and the Clan Macdonald of Sleat, did not take part in the Jacobite rising of 1745 because of the threat of forfeiture. The major Jacobite Rebellions in 1715 and 1745 were speedily suppressed. The ravaged Jacobite troops were routed by the government army. Examples from Classical Literature She was shut up in the tolbooth for singing Jacobite songs in the Canongate. And what business had a Melchite at Memphis, under the roof of a good Jacobite? This volume contains reproduction in colour of sixteen Jacobite pictures and seven portraits in collotype. It was afterwards the place of meeting for the Jacobite nobles, and their adherents. The Jacobite sentiments were general among the western counties, and in Wales. He left some thousands to his son, Jeremiah, an attorney and a strong Jacobite. Besides, though I had never mixed with politics, I was a Jacobite by inheritance. Mr. Clayton, as will be conjectured from what we are about to narrate, was a Jacobite and a nonjuror. The penitent was informed by his Jacobite friends that he was forgiven. Strange, an expert engraver, was printing Jacobite bank-notes. The Jacobite ladies were as fearless as they were persevering. The house of the Earl of huntingdon, a noted Jacobite, was searched. The Jacobite bishop exalted the prerogatives of princes and kings. If a man like your brother likes to go into Parliament as a yeoman or a gentleman or a Jacobite or an Ancient Briton, I should say it would be a jolly good thing. Find more words! 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