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National Library of Scotland
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A Description of Part of the Highlands of Scotland [showing clans which rebelled in 1715]
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A Description of Part of the Highlands of Scotland [showing clans which rebelled in 1715]
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Anonymous
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Manson, John (active 1748-1749)
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1725-1749
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This map shows Scotland from the Lothians, Ayrshire and Renfrewshire in the south to Kintail in the north. North of Stirling, it indicates the clan territories by name, and gives the number of men each clan contributed to the 1715 Rising in favour of James Francis Stuart, marking the Stuart forces in red. It is a copy done in the Tower of London Drawing Room, by John Manson. As Manson was only in the Drawing Room between 1748 and 1749, this would date this copy to that period. It is accompanied by a sheet of text (on image 00003161), which lists the clans, their numbers in the battles, and their loyalties, with some additional notes. If the original map was drawn up at the same time as the original of the text sheet, they would both have to be dated to several years post-1725, because of the note in the text about the clans' continuing obedience to the 1725 Disarming Act. However, the map does not mark any of the battles of 1745-1746 Stuart Rising, which seems to indicate that the original was drawn up prior to that date, although this copy was drawn three or four years later. The map also and marks notable battles, specifically Dunbar in 1650, between the Scots forces led by David Leslie and the English forces led by Oliver Cromwell; Killiecrankie in 1689, when General Hugh Mackay of Scourie was defeated by the forces of John Graham, Viscount Dundee, but Dundee was killed; the battle at Haughs of Cromdale in 1690, when Sir Thomas Livingstone defeated a force of Highlanders led by one of the exiled James II's Irish generals, General Buchan; Sheriffmuir in 1715, when John Campbell, Duke of Argyll defeated the forces of John Erskine, Earl of Mar; and finally, Glenshiel in 1719, when a force of Spaniards sent over by James Francis Stuart, and a small number from the Highland clans, led by George Keith, the 10th Earl Marischal, were defeated by General Wightman. It also marks the naval engagement in the Firth of Forth, when James Francis Stuart tried to land at Pittenweem, Fife in 1708, and the place where John Erskine Earl of Mar raised the standard to start the 1715 Rising, at the Braes of Mar. Other features noted on it are three of the Highland forts, Ruthven, Inversnaid and Bernera, built between 1719 and 1724, Fort William, Fort Augustus and Fort George at Inverness, but not Fort George, Ardersier, as that was only in its initial stages of construction even at the time of the copying of the map. It also marks the Antonine Wall, named as 'Graham's Dyke', the Roman fort at Ardoch, and the proposed route of the Forth-Clyde canal.
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This map shows Scotland from the Lothians, Ayrshire and Renfrewshire in the south to Kintail in the north. North of Stirling, it indicates the clan territories by name, and gives the number of men each clan contributed to the 1715 Rising in favour of James Francis Stuart, marking the Stuart forces in red. It is a copy done in the Tower of London Drawing Room, by John Manson. As Manson was only in the Drawing Room between 1748 and 1749, this would date this copy to that period. It is accompanied by a sheet of text (on image 00003161), which lists the clans, their numbers in the battles, and their loyalties, with some additional notes. If the original map was drawn up at the same time as the original of the text sheet, they would both have to be dated to several years post-1725, because of the note in the text about the clans' continuing obedience to the 1725 Disarming Act. However, the map does not mark any of the battles of 1745-1746 Stuart Rising, which seems to indicate that the original was drawn up prior to that date, although this copy was drawn three or four years later. The map also and marks notable battles, specifically Dunbar in 1650, between the Scots forces led by David Leslie and the English forces led by Oliver Cromwell; Killiecrankie in 1689, when General Hugh Mackay of Scourie was defeated by the forces of John Graham, Viscount Dundee, but Dundee was killed; the battle at Haughs of Cromdale in 1690, when Sir Thomas Livingstone defeated a force of Highlanders led by one of the exiled James II's Irish generals, General Buchan; Sheriffmuir in 1715, when John Campbell, Duke of Argyll defeated the forces of John Erskine, Earl of Mar; and finally, Glenshiel in 1719, when a force of Spaniards sent over by James Francis Stuart, and a small number from the Highland clans, led by George Keith, the 10th Earl Marischal, were defeated by General Wightman. It also marks the naval engagement in the Firth of Forth, when James Francis Stuart tried to land at Pittenweem, Fife in 1708, and the place where John Erskine Earl of Mar raised the standard to start the 1715 Rising, at the Braes of Mar. Other features noted on it are three of the Highland forts, Ruthven, Inversnaid and Bernera, built between 1719 and 1724, Fort William, Fort Augustus and Fort George at Inverness, but not Fort George, Ardersier, as that was only in its initial stages of construction even at the time of the copying of the map. It also marks the Antonine Wall, named as 'Graham's Dyke', the Roman fort at Ardoch, and the proposed route of the Forth-Clyde canal.
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71.5 x 52cm (2' 4 1/8" x 1' 8 1/2")
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71.5 x 52cm (2' 4 1/8" x 1' 8 1/2")
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Hand coloured
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Antonine Wall
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Antonine Wall
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Forth and Clyde Canal
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Forth and Clyde Canal
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Scotland
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Scotland
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Glenshiel, Battle of, 1719
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Glenshiel, Battle of, 1719
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Haughs of Cromdale, Battle of, 1690
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Haughs of Cromdale, Battle of, 1690
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Killiecrankie, Battle of, 1689
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Killiecrankie, Battle of, 1689
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Sheriffmuir, Battle of, 1715
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Sheriffmuir, Battle of, 1715
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Antiquities, Roman
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Battlefields
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Board of Ordnance
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Canals
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Canals
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Fortifications
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Fortifications
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Maps, Military
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Maps, Military
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Roads
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Reference:
Robert Sibbald, 'Atlas Scoticus, or, a Description of Scotland Ancient and Modern' [ca. 1682]., [1800], f.16 (Public Record Office: WO 55/2281)
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Robert Sibbald, 'Atlas Scoticus, or, a Description of Scotland Ancient and Modern' [ca. 1682]., [1800], f.16 (Public Record Office: WO 55/2281)
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Rights Statement:
© 2002 Crown Copyright is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the National Library of Scotland
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© 2002 Crown Copyright is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the National Library of Scotland
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