caa a22 4500 388018143 CHVBK 20180307124916.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199810 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1086/386172 doi S0021937100023352 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1086/386172 Szechi Daniel "Cam Ye O'er Frae France?” Exile and the Mind of Scottish Jacobitism, 1716-1727 [Elektronische Daten] [Daniel Szechi] On 14 February 1716 at Ruthven in Badenoch, the remaining officers of the Jacobite army in Scotland gathered to decide their next move. They had turned out the previous autumn in high hopes of restoring the Stuart dynasty to the throne it had lost in 1689 and forcing an end to the union with England, but their confidence and enthusiasm had long since evaporated in the face of the defeat of the English rising at Preston and failure on their own part at Sherrifmuir. Their king and his chief minister had fled the country just after the army began its retreat from Perth. Now the weather had deteriorated, and desertion had reduced their once impressive force to a shadow of its former self. Not surprisingly, given the circumstances, the officers drafted a letter to the duke of Argyll, the commander of the British army in Scotland, asking for an indemnity and ordered their men to make their own way home. Then they themselves dispersed. It was the final act in the botched complex of conspiracies and uprisings that has gone down in history as the Jacobite Rising of 1715. Reflecting on the consequences of the Jacobites' failure, the earl of Mar, by then the Old Pretender's secretary of state, sadly remarked: "I much doubt if ever a [rising] can be established there again.” It was a percipient observation. For over a generation, it was to prove extremely difficult to persuade most of the leaders of Scottish Jacobitism even to contemplate another uprising. Copyright © North American Conference of British Studies 1998 The Journal of British Studies Cambridge University Press 37/4(1998-10), 357-390 0021-9371 37:4<357 1998 37 JBR https://doi.org/10.1086/386172 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1086/386172 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Szechi Daniel NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of British Studies Cambridge University Press 37/4(1998-10), 357-390 0021-9371 37:4<357 1998 37 JBR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge