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BonnieDundee · 16-04-2008, 05:27 AM

So? So was Scotland. You are talking about Jacobite uprisings which were on behalf of the exiled Stuarts who were Kings of England and Scotland. The reason more Scots supported them actively was simply they were more annoyed at the Whig/Hanoverian gov't in Westminister and most importantly they were further away from its grip. The '15 rising drew support from all over the North of England as well, it was a dynastic and ideological struggle not a national one, there were enough Whig, anti-Jacobites in Scotland as well.

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BonnieDundee Uber Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Between Mallaig and Cornwall. Posts: 2,201	So? So was Scotland. You are talking about Jacobite uprisings which were on behalf of the exiled Stuarts who were Kings of England and Scotland. The reason more Scots supported them actively was simply they were more annoyed at the Whig/Hanoverian gov't in Westminister and most importantly they were further away from its grip. The '15 rising drew support from all over the North of England as well, it was a dynastic and ideological struggle not a national one, there were enough Whig, anti-Jacobites in Scotland as well. __________________ "It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state." -Bruce Schneier How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your TV; build your own cabin and pss off front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.* Edward Abbey Leopold Kohr.