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* Known as 'Bluidy Claverhouse' to many from his campaigning against the Covenanters in the South ... tenant in Sir William Lockhart's Scots Regiment. This regiment was under the command of the Duke of Mon... ttle of Seneffe and rescued the young Prince when his horse fell in marshy ground. As a reward for his actions Dundee received a Captain’s commission. Two y
fe of King James VII and II gave birth to a son. This brought home to those that he had upset with his toleration of Roman Catholics and Protestant dissenters that this policy would continue. Accordingly a number of English nobles and bishops invited his son-in-law, Prince William of Orange, to come to
====== Awa' to the Hills ======
This game is about the Highland campaign of Viscount Dundee, King James... iament's declaration that James VII had forfeited his Crown Viscount Dundee returned home to his heavily pregnant wife at Dudhope just north of Dundee. After a few weeks he had gathered about him some of his very loyal troop of Horse. They rode out to Dunde
cally obligatory for every Pashtun.
Elements in this code of behavior are often in opposition to the S... dali of Kandahar established the Durrani Empire. This one-time general in Nadir Shah's Persian army was... h takes decisions by consensus. The legitimacy of his rule was sanctioned at the same time by the ulama... nd was henceforth known as Ahmad Shah Durrani and his tribe, the Pashtun Abdali tribe, as the Durrani.
wn as a staunch Williamite
* seeking to recover his father's estates and restore the Earldom of Argyll which was attainted when his father supported an uprising against King James V... rt, 4th Earl of Moray, Campbell sought to recover his father's estates (by moving into King James VII's
the intrigues and conflicts of Scottish politics. His preference would be to retire to the continent where he could live his life in peace.
He had been on the point of surr... arres]] discovered him in the process of removing his personal belongings and furniture from the castle
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* [[Argyll]]((technically not an Earl as his father was attainted in 1685 for his part in an uprising against King James VII)) //**[2]**//
===== U... torically chosen as the interlocutor between the Convention and the Castle for this reason //**[3]**//
===== Orange or Lemon? =====
This is a working title for a game about the Scottish Parliament's convent... ople:James|King James VII]] should be replaced by his son in law [[:rules:clwg:1689:people:Orange|Prince William of Orange]]. Historically this was pretty evenly balanced and only resolved when
====== Who Are the Taliban ======
this is mostly from a BBC report, but I have edited it a little.
Th... led by Mullah Omar, a village clergyman who lost his right eye fighting the occupying forces of the So... els not seen since 2001.
Their retreat earlier this decade enabled them to limit their human and mate
es:clwg:1689:people:James|King James VII]] wrote this letter while he was aboard the St Michael on the ... il members had asked him to send and substituted this less than helpful version in its place. It was d... ether at our good town of Edinburgh some time in this instant March by the usurped authority of the [[:... y and disgrace you must bring upon yourselves in this world, and the condemnation due to the rebellious
