The Jacobite Rising of 1719 was a failed attempt to restore the exiled James Francis Edward Stuart to the throne of Great Britain. Part of a series of Jacobite risings between 1689 and 1745, it was supported by Spain, then at war with Britain during the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
The Battle of Glenshiel 1719, Peter Tillemans
Charles XII of Sweden; his death in November 1718 ended Swedish participation, and the purpose of the Scottish rising
Eilean Donan, modern day
The Battle of Glen Shiel 10 June 1719
James Francis Edward Stuart
James Francis Edward Stuart, nicknamed the Old Pretender by Whigs and the King over the Water by Jacobites, was the son of King James VII and II of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and his second wife, Mary of Modena. He was Prince of Wales from July 1688 until, just months after his birth, his Catholic father was deposed and exiled in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. James II's Protestant elder daughter Mary II and her husband William III became co-monarchs. The Bill of Rights 1689 and Act of Settlement 1701 excluded Catholics such as James from the English and British thrones.
Portrait from the studio of Alexis Simon Belle, c. 1712
James Francis Edward as Prince of Wales, after a painting by Nicolas de Largillière
James Francis Edward, about 1703, portrait in the Royal Collection attributed to Alexis Simon Belle
The Old Pretender lands in Scotland after Sheriffmuir. An 18th-century engraving.
