After the defeat of the Scottish Engagement army at Preston, the radical Covenanting west rose and marched on Edinburgh. The Whiggamore Raid brought down the Engager government and installed the Kirk party in power — the most extreme Presbyterian faction. Cromwell arrived soon after and approved the new government. The raid showed that political power in Scotland could still be seized by mass military mobilisation of the godly western counties.
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