As the Jacobite army broke up and dispersed in February 1716 following James Stuart's departure, government forces pressed northward from Stirling. At Dundee, which had been held by the Jacobites throughout the rising, a rear-guard skirmish occurred as Jacobite cavalry covering the northern evacuation encountered government advance forces. The town was abandoned without a major fight. These final actions in February 1716 — at Dundee and along the Angus coastal route — were the last organised Jacobite military activity of the 1715 rising as the army dissolved into the surrounding countryside.
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