Jacobite Rising of 1715

The Jacobite Rising of 1715
Part of Jacobite risings
James Francis Edward Stuart
Date 1715–1716 Location Great Britain Result Decisive Hanoverian-British Victory
Belligerents
Jacobites Kingdom of France	Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar Brigadier General William Mackintosh, Laird of Borlum	John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll

John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar

The Jacobite rising of 1715 (Scottish Gaelic: Bliadhna Sheumais [ˈbliən̪ˠə ˈheːmɪʃ]) (also referred to as the Fifteen or Lord Mar's Revolt), was the attempt by James Francis Edward Stuart (also called the Old Pretender) to regain the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland for the exiled House of Stuart.

The Glorious Revolution of 1688–89 resulted in the Roman Catholic Stuart king, James II of England and VII of Scotland, fleeing to exile in France under the protection of Louis XIV. James' daughter and her husband, who was also James's nephew, ascended to the British thrones as joint sovereigns William and Mary. In 1690 Presbyterianism was established as the state religion of Scotland. The Act of Settlement 1701 settled the succession of the English throne on the Protestant House of Hanover. The Act of Union 1707 applied the Act of Settlement to Scotland. With the death of Queen Anne in 1714, the Elector of Hanover, George I, succeeded to the British throne. The accession of George I ushered in the Whig supremacy, with the Tories deprived of all political power. The new Whig regime sought to prosecute members of the 1710–1714 Tory ministry for financial irregularities, with Robert Harley being imprisoned in the Tower of London and Lord Bolingbroke fleeing to France before arrest. Bolingbroke became the Pretender's Secretary of State and accepted an earldom from him.

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