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Highlands: Episode 3

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Highlands: Episode 2

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Jacobite

In Britain, a supporter of the royal house of Stuart after the deposition of James II in 1688. They include the Scottish Highlanders, who rose unsuccessfully under Claverhouse in 1689, despite initial victory at the Battle of Killiecrankie; and those who rose in Scotland and northern England in 1715 (the Fifteen) under the leadership of James Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, and followed his son Charles Edward Stuart in an invasion of England from 1745 to 1746 (the Forty‐Five) that reached Derby; see United Kingdom: history 1714–1815, the Jacobite rebellions. After the defeat at Culloden, Jacobitism disappeared as a political force.

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