Between 1639 and 1652, Scotland was involved in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a series of conflicts which included the Bishops' Wars, the Irish Rebellion of 1641, the English Civil War, the Irish Co
Riot sparked by Jenny Geddes over the imposition of Charles I's Book of Common Prayer in Presbyterian Scotland. Civil disobedience soon turned into armed defiance.
The Signing of the National Covenant in Greyfriars Churchyard, 1638 by William Hole
Montrose; a Covenanter general in 1639 and 1640 who became leader of the Royalist campaign 1644–1645
Archibald Campbell, Covenanter and Chief of the Campbell clan
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose was a Scottish nobleman, poet, soldier and later viceroy and captain general of Scotland. Montrose initially joined the Covenanters in the Wars of the Three King
Portrait attributed to Willem van Honthorst
Passage of Montrose's Army Through Glencoe by Sir George Reid, 1876
Montrose in streets of Edinburgh before the day of his hanging