James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, landed at Peterhead on 22 December 1715 and made his way south through Aberdeenshire, Angus and Perthshire to Perth. The winter march took several weeks. James was ill and demoralised. Government forces threatened from the south as Argyll's army advanced from Stirling. The route through Montrose, Brechin and Forfar was the main Jacobite coastal corridor. At each town James was received with formal ceremony but the rising was clearly failing. When he reached Perth, his dispirited demeanour shocked even his supporters. He departed Scotland six weeks after arrival, sailing from Montrose in February 1716.
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