The Whiggamore Raid (or "March of the Whiggamores") was a march on Edinburgh by supporters of the Kirk faction of the Covenanters to take power from the...
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This led to the return of the Argyll faction in Scotland after the Whiggamore Raid. After the execution of Charles I, Argyll declared his son, Charles...
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Kirk party were disparagingly called "whiggamores" or "whigs" by their Scottish opponents (See the Whiggamore Raid). The nickname was later applied (equally...
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Scottish Covenanters during the 17th-century Wars of the Three Kingdoms Whiggamore Raid, a march on Edinburgh by supporters of the Kirk faction in September...
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to suppress the Conventicles in 1678–80, and took part in the devastating raid led by the Marquess of Atholl that followed Argyll's Rising in 1685. Primarily...
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Old-Money". The name probably originates from a shortening of Whiggamore referring to the Whiggamore Raid. The word "Whiggery", deriving from "Whig" and the suffix...
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the Middle Irish word for 'pursuer' tóraidhe), Whig (from whiggamore; see the Whiggamore Raid) and Suffragette are other British examples. In the American...
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Dunaverty Mauchline Muir Preston Winwick Anglo-Scottish war (1650–1652) Whiggamore Raid Stirling 1st Inverness 2nd Inverness Carbisdale Dunbar Inverkeithing...
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Dunaverty Mauchline Muir Preston Winwick Anglo-Scottish war (1650–1652) Whiggamore Raid Stirling 1st Inverness 2nd Inverness Carbisdale Dunbar Inverkeithing...
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Second English Civil War Mauchline Muir Preston Third English Civil War Whiggamore Raid Stirling 1st Inverness 2nd Inverness Carbisdale Dunbar Inverkeithing...
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