Jacobite rising of 1719

Jacobite Rising of 1719
Part of Jacobite risings and War of the Quadruple Alliance
The Battle of Glenshiel 1719, Peter Tillemans
Date 1719 Location Scotland Result Government victory
Belligerents
British Government  Dutch Republic[1]	British Jacobites Spain
Commanders and leaders
Joseph Wightman Chester Boyle Donald Murchinson Kenneth Murchinson	George Keith William Murray William Mackenzie Nicolás Bolaño

The Jacobite Rising of 1719 was a failed attempt to restore the exiled James Francis Edward Stuart to the throne of Great Britain. Part of a series of Jacobite risings between 1689 and 1745, it was supported by Spain, then at war with Britain during the War of the Quadruple Alliance.

The main part of the plan called for 5,000 Spanish troops to land in South West England, with a subsidiary landing in Scotland by an expeditionary force, led by Charles XII of Sweden. To facilitate this, Scottish Jacobites would capture the port of Inverness; however, Charles' death in November 1718 ended Swedish involvement, and rendered the Scottish operation largely irrelevant.

Despite this, in late March, a small force of Spanish marines and Jacobite exiles landed in Stornoway. Learning that the invasion of England had been cancelled when the Spanish invasion fleet was severely damaged by storms, they decided to march on Inverness as planned. They were intercepted and defeated at the Battle of Glen Shiel in June, ending the Rising in Scotland.

Jacobite leaders felt the failed revolt had so undermined the Stuart cause that it had ended any real prospects for their restoration. Over the next few years, senior exiles including Bolingbroke, and the Earl of Seaforth, accepted pardons and returned home. Others, such as James and George Keith, ended active participation in Jacobite plots, and took employment with other states.