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The Jacobite Rebellion


As depicted by the figures from John Jenkins Designs together with the expert skills of David Marshall diorama builder, and one half of TM Terrain

It is always good to set the scene with any piece of history that our hobby sets out to recreate so before concentrating on John and David’s skills I would like to give a snapshot of the events leading up to the rebellion of 1745 together with an overview of the whole Jacobite episode that arose out of the unification of Scotland with England in 1707.

The Act of Union agreement, although economically favourable to land owners in Scotland, was highly unpopular with the vast majority of the population ‘north of the border’. This was because it had failed to deliver any economic advantages to the majority of the people for well over thirty years. Discontent was widespread and food riots were common place in the east coast regions as the effects of famine were compounded by union taxes. Although the situation encouraged resistance to union-economics, there wasn’t universal support for the Jacobite cause of keeping the Stuarts on the throne in London. Many in Scotland now associated the Stuarts with Catholicism and suppression of the Protestant Kirk. The Union of 1707 was also designed to put an end to Jacobite hopes of a Stuart restoration by ensuring the German Hanoverian dynasty succeeded Queen Anne upon her death. However, the Stuarts did still command a lot of loyalty in Scotland, France and England – so in effect the British Union did inevitably re-ignite the Jacobite cause.
 

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