Unquenched rage : the Jacobites of North East Scotland, 1688-1708 / Mike Shepherd.

Shepherd, Mike, author

[Aberdeenshire] : [Mike Shepherd], 2024.

229 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographic references.

The trouble begins - - Lady Anne Drummond - - Scotland in turmoil - - Alexander Rose - - The lead up to the Convention of the Estates - - The Duke of Gordon - - Events in Edinburgh - - The siege of Edinburgh Castle - - The siege ends - - The shadow war in the north - - Highlanders on the march - - Treachery in the camp - - Lady Catherine Carnegie - - George Garden - - Killiecrankie and after - - Thomas Buchan - - The visitation - - Famine in Scotland - - A poor bleeding sinking nation - - Persecution - - The French secret agent - - Lady Anne Drummond's spycraft - - Hooke visits Scotland - - Hooke's second visit - - Dunkirk - - Inverbervie - - Speymouth, Cullen, and Buckie - - References.

The history of early Jacobite times in North East Scotland is thrilling and epic. And should you think that everything has been written about the Jacobites: no, not what is in this book. Something astonishing happened here. In a region distinct in religion and thought, the early European Enlightenment had taken hold. And many became Jacobites when their way of life was threatened. Take, for example, Lady Anne Drummond, Countess of Erroll, who contributed to a famous book of the Enlightenment. She also ran military intelligence for the Scottish Jacobites from Slains Castle.

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