John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, refused to accept the Convention's authority after William of Orange's accession. He rode out of Edinburgh with fifty horsemen and rode north to raise the Highland clans for James VII. His departure and journey through Perthshire marks the true beginning of the 1689 Jacobite rising. Dundee was an experienced cavalry officer — the man the Covenanters called "Bluidy Clavers" — and his charisma was essential to gathering Highland support.
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