After the Battle of Glenshiel on 10 June 1719 — already in the database — the rising immediately disintegrated. The 300 Spanish marines, unable to flee into the mountains as the Highlanders did, surrendered to the government forces. They were treated as prisoners of war. The Highland clans dispersed into the mountains, their leaders escaping to France. The Jacobite chiefs — the Earl Marischal, Tullibardine, Rob Roy MacGregor — all escaped. The Spanish prisoners were eventually repatriated. The 1719 rising was the shortest and least dangerous of the Jacobite campaigns.
Spanish marines taken prisoner; Highland losses in the battle and flight
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