The Earl of Mar and other Jacobite leaders played a significant role in generating support for the rising of 1715. Mar organised a gathering of Jacobite clans at Braemar and told them of the ...

Montrose in Angus became pivotal to events in the 1745 Jacobite rising given the deep harbour and pool of men ready to lend their support to Prince Charles Edward Stuart.

In 1715, there was an attempted rising by Jacobites against the Hanoverian ... Popular support for the Jacobite movement increased due to growing Jacobite culture - poems, songs and fiddle tunes ...