Archibald Campbell, ninth Earl of Argyll, landed at Campbeltown in Kintyre in May 1685 with a small force of exiles from the Netherlands, intending to raise his Campbell clansmen against James VII in coordination with Monmouth's rebellion in England. The landing was the opening act of the Argyll Rising of 1685. Argyll hoped that his Campbell clansmen would flock to his standard as they had in his father's time.
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