Spain, at war with Britain in the War of the Quadruple Alliance, planned a two-pronged Jacobite expedition in 1719. The main fleet of 27 ships and 5,000 Spanish troops under the Duke of Ormonde was scattered by storms in the Bay of Biscay and never reached Scotland. A smaller secondary expedition of two frigates with 300 Spanish marines and several Jacobite exiles — including the Earl Marischal and the Marquess of Tullibardine — successfully landed at Loch Alsh in April 1719 and led to the Battle of Glenshiel.
Main fleet largely lost to storms
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