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Born February 1675 • Alloa • Scotland
Died May 1732 (aged 57) • Aachen • Germany
Political Affiliation Jacobite
Role In Fifteen Rebellion

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Mar, John Erskine, 6th earl of, Lord Erskine
6th Earl of Mar, detail of an india ink drawing by Sir Godfrey Kneller; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
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William Gordon, 6th Viscount Kenmure
Scottish Jacobite
L.G. Blanchet: James Edward, the Old Pretender
James Edward, the Old Pretender
claimant to English and Scottish thrones
Thomas Forster
English Jacobite
John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll
British official and soldier
Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat
Scottish Jacobite
Lord Dundee, ink miniature by David Paton; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st viscount of Dundee
Scottish soldier
John Murray, 2nd earl and 1st marquess of Atholl
Scottish Royalist
Ewen Cameron
Scottish Highland chieftain
Sir John Murray, Baronet
Scottish Jacobite
Charles Middleton, 2nd earl of Middleton
British statesman
Robert Ferguson
British conspirator
Flora Macdonald, detail of an oil painting by Allan Ramsay; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Flora Macdonald
Scottish Jacobite
Lord George Murray
Scottish general
William III
William III
king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Henry Saint John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
British politician
Frederick Herman, duke of Schomberg
German soldier
Charles Edward
Charles Edward, the Young Pretender
British prince
Godard van Reede, 1st earl of Athlone
Dutch soldier
James Fitzjames, duke of Berwick-upon-Tweed, engraving, 17th century.
James Fitzjames, duke of Berwick-upon-Tweed
English noble and marshal of France
Patrick Sarsfield
Irish Jacobite