The town of Dundee — despite the ironies of sharing its name with the Jacobite commander Viscount Dundee — was garrisoned for the government of William III in 1689. Government-sympathising Presbyterians and the town council maintained control against the Jacobite-leaning Angus gentry in the surrounding countryside. The town was repeatedly threatened by Jacobite raiders from the glens and by the pro-Jacobite noble families of Angus. Skirmishing between government townsmen and Jacobite raiding parties occurred through the summer of 1689.
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