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Jacobite Risings

Jacobite seizure of Dundee 1715

1715
Angus, Scotland
Era
Jacobite Risings
Battle Type
occupation
Location
Angus, Scotland
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Defeated
Government sympathisers
VS
Victor
Jacobites
Outcome
Dundee was taken and held by Jacobite forces from autumn 1715, with the pro-Jacobite town clerk and magistrates supporting the Earl of Mar's rising; James Francis Edward Stuart (the Pretender) visited the town in the winter of 1715-16 to try to rally support before the rising collapsed. The town remained in Jacobite hands until abandoned as government forces advanced in early 1716.
The Battle

History & Significance

Jacobite seizure of Dundee 1715 was a Jacobite occupation, fought at Angus, Scotland in 1715. Jacobites prevailed over Government sympathisers. Dundee was taken and held by Jacobite forces from autumn 1715, with the pro-Jacobite town clerk and magistrates supporting the Earl of Mar's rising; James Francis Edward Stuart (the Pretender) visited the town in the winter of 1715-16 to try to rally support before the rising collapsed. The town remained in Jacobite hands until abandoned as government forces advanced in early 1716.

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The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of Jacobite seizure of Dundee 1715 lies on Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, bedrock that formed in the Pragian. The rock here is sandstone with subordinate conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone.

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Scheduled Monuments near Jacobite seizure of Dundee 1715

Tayfield, settlement NE of South Lodge
Tayfield, settlement NE of South Lodge
Scheduled monument · ~2.3 mi

Tayfield is a settlement situated northeast of South Lodge in Fife, Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The site occupies ground underlain by Silurian to Devonian extrusive rocks, specifically mafic lava and tuff formed during the Devonian period, which h…

St Peter's Church & graveyard, Invergowrie
St Peter's Church & graveyard, Invergowrie
Scheduled monument · ~3.2 mi

St Peter's Church and graveyard, Invergowrie is a medieval parish church with its associated burial ground in Perthshire, Scotland. The church stands on bedrock of the Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, a sandstone formation laid down during the Pragian period and interspersed with conglomerate, siltstone…

Dundee and Newtyle Railway,embankment N of Baldragon
Dundee and Newtyle Railway,embankment N of Baldragon
Scheduled monument · ~3.2 mi

Dundee and Newtyle Railway embankment north of Baldragon is a section of railway infrastructure surviving from the early nineteenth-century expansion of transport links in eastern Scotland. The embankment runs across Angus, constructed to carry the railway on a level course across the undulating…

Esky Loch, unenclosed settlement 400m ENE of
Esky Loch, unenclosed settlement 400m ENE of
Scheduled monument · ~3.3 mi

Esky Loch is an unenclosed settlement located approximately 400 metres east-north-east of Fife in Scotland. The site lies upon bedrock of Devonian mafic lava and mafic tuff, ancient volcanic rocks formed during the Devonian period when intense geological activity shaped the landscape of what is n…

Esky Loch, barrows 400m E of
Esky Loch, barrows 400m E of
Scheduled monument · ~3.4 mi

Esky Loch barrows is a Bronze Age cemetery located in Fife, Scotland, comprising multiple burial mounds positioned 400 metres east of Esky Loch. The site sits upon Silurian to Devonian extrusive rocks, specifically mafic lava and mafic tuff formed during the Devonian period, which would have crea…

Paddock Stone, standing stone
Paddock Stone, standing stone
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~3.6 mi

Paddock Stone is a Bronze Age standing stone located in Angus, Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The monument belongs to a widespread tradition of monumental stone-setting that flourished across Britain and Ireland during the second millennium BC. Stand…

Wishart Arch, gateway 50m E of 15 Cowgate, Dundee
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~0.3 miles
Dundee Law,fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~0.9 miles
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