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* Known as 'Bluidy Claverhouse' to many from his campaigning against the Covenanters in the South ... 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 years later Graham resigned his commission and returned to Scotland. William wrot
This brought home to those that he had upset with his toleration of Roman Catholics and Protestant diss... ly a number of English nobles and bishops invited his son-in-law, Prince William of Orange, to come to ... d replace James as King((technically they invited his daughter to be the queen but Prince William insis... hed church. The King is himself a Catholic, hence his policy of enforced religious toleration. There ha
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
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
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. When his successors lost the support of the tribes after A
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
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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]**//
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