#Jacobite.

[scotianostra]

On March 23rd 1708 a French fleet with James Francis Edward Stuart reached the Firth of Forth

where they tried to land James on the Fife shore at the head of a 5,000-strong French army. They were prevented from doing so by English warships under Admiral Byng combined with bad weather.

The French admiral in charge of the fleet called off the attempt, refusing James' pleas to be put ashore, alone if necessary. James returned had no choice but to France.

[connorphilpphotography]

The Jacobite at Glenfinnan Viaduct

[bantarleton]

A recreated trooper of Cobham’s Dragoons as he would have looked during the 1745 Jacobite Rising.

[vox-anglosphere]

Loch-Shiel

[werewolfetone]

Really good underappreciated subtype of folk song is when the verses are like my name is roger o'neill and I killed 200 people in coleraine in 1825 / because they put me in gaol for murdering my entire family / I burnt down a whole bunch of houses with black powder after locking everyone inside / now they're transporting me and when I get to van diemen's land I'm going to kill 200 more people and the chorus is like fa la la fiddle dee dee yippee yay!!!

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Jacobites - Hearts Are Like Flowers

It's December — scarf season! And that means it's time to listen to the Scarf Kings Nikki Sudden and Dave Kusworth. Thanks to americanslimeweasel for digitizing a rare cassette to give all of us our necessary Jacobites fix. Side A captures a loose and lovely Italian radio broadcast in 1985, with Epic Soundtracks along for the ride; Epic sounds like he's hitting ... a phonebook with chopsticks? Side B lets us eavesdrop on an even looser/even lovelier rehearsal from that same year. Neil Young may have named an album Ragged Glory, but these guys are the ones who lived raggedly and gloriously.

Also included with the DL — a scan of a very detailed, very entertaining tour zine from '85. A sampling from the Cologne show: "This was probably the funniest gig. Beer and bottles of wine on stage. The wine got kicked over. The beer got drunk. Feedback from Nikki's acoustic guitar. Lots of animation. Nikki ran around the stage with his guitar unplugged. I was too shy to go on stage. Nikki broke guitar strings. With the help of my technical consultant Briggi we changed strings and tuned the guitar. Nikki plays the newly tuned guitar. It is totally out of tune. He uses another instrument which refuses to work for the next 3 songs. Sometimes the newly formed band even knew what songs they were playing. Sometimes it didn't matter."

[dampfloks]

The Jacobite

45 407 The Lancashire Fusilier LMS Stanier Class 5-4-6-0 ‚Black Five’ Hier auf dem Glenfinnan Viaduct, Inverness-shire (Siorrachd Inbhir Nis), Schottland.\ Der Zug fährt von Ford Williams (An Gearasdan) nach Mallaig und wurde nach den Jakobiten, deren letzter Aufstand gegen die britische Krone 1745 in Glenfinnan seinen Anfang nahm.

The Jacobite

45 407 The Lancashire Fusilier LMS Stanier Class 5-4-6-0 'Black Five' Here on the Glenfinnan Viaduct, Inverness-shire (Siorrachd Inbhir Nis), Scotland The train runs from Ford Williams (An Gearasdan) to Mallaig and was named after the Jacobites, whose last uprising against the British Crown began in Glenfinnan in 1745.

The Jacobite

45 407 Le Fusilier du Lancashire LMS Stanier Class 5-4-6-0 'Black Five' (cinq noirs) lci sur le Glenfinnan Viaduct, Inverness-shire (Siorrachd Inbhir Nis), Écosse Le train circule de Ford Williams (An Gearasdan) à Mallaig et a été baptisé du nom des Jacobites, dont la dernière révolte contre la couronne britannique a débuté à Glenfinnan en 1745.

[sgiandubh]

JAMMF, 303

James Alexander Malcolm Mackenzie Fraser is today 303. Born to both strife and greatness, on Beltane Day.

Fictional characters never die for good, their energy keeps on lingering somewhere, in a corner of our heart. So, here's a heartfelt Happy Birthday to a formidable character that one day chose to possess Herself's imagination and brought us all together, in this strange digital limbo of sorts.

Despite his rock-solid appearance, JAMMF is a real chameleon. My favorite JAMMF is perhaps the least talked about one. The Diplomat. Of course.

This guy, playing chess at Versailles (in reality, it's Prague, and a sizably different kind of Baroque, but let's not nitpick, here). A wonderful metaphor for what diplomacy was, is and always will be: a sophisticated game of chess.

While in Paris, JAMMF is acting, in plain sight, as a diplomatic agent of sorts on behalf of Bonnie Prince Charlie's embryo of a government in exile. Desperately hoping and fruitlessly waiting for more. And making a very bad, emotional job of it all, when emotions are least needed, despite all those best laid plans. Still, he does exactly what a diplomat posted abroad would do. He meets all the important honchos, he brilliantly entertains all those people at his open table, he mingles with princes and beggars alike and of course, he dutifully reports in writing about all this, back to Scotland.

It is, therefore, a pity and a shame that Herself did not utter a single word, in Dragonfly in Amber, about the real Jacobite meeting place in Paris: Sorbonne's Collegium Scoticum/Scots College, or Collège des Écossais, founded in 1333, by an edict of the Parliament of Paris (what we would call today the local council) and as a belated, yet important consequence of the Auld Alliance treaty between France, Scotland and Norway:

This is a place with a rich and minutely documented history, so much so that the adjoining street soon came to be known as the rue des Ecossais (Scots' Street), instead of rue des Amandiers (Almond Tree Street).

The building is still there, albeit with a different destination, a private Catholic elementary school. And a plaque inside the main building tells part of the story, in Latin:

Meaning:

In 1325, under the reigns of Charles the Fair, in France and Robert the Bruce, in Scotland, David de Moravia, bishop of Murray founded this college. In 1604, Jacques de Bethun, archbishop of Glasgow made a seminary out of it, given to the perpetual administration of the Carthusian Order's Superior of Paris [later edit, forgot to translate that properly and the French version I eventually took out is incomplete, sorry!]. In 1639, the whole was placed under the authority of the King of France and the Archbishop of Paris, their supreme authority being solemnly ratified by the Parliament of Paris. In memory of the founders, the priests and the alumni, may they rest in peace!

[Later edit]: the eight year difference in records reflects the time it took for the Parliament of Paris to acknowledge the College's existence and offer its due legal protection. So: founded by the bishop of Murray in 1325 and legally authorized by the Parliament of Paris in 1333. Both dates are legit founding landmarks and can be quoted accordingly.

[defensivelee]

Have you seen the flashback of Marlborough in The Gathering Storm?? It's a film about Winston Churchill and there's a scene of him imagining Marlborough leading the British Army and they end up having eye contact in this really dramatic climax.

i've watched that scene before, yes ! i have a lot of Feelings about marly being compared to his descendant, most of them boiling down to 'get the fuck away from my wife' but i promise it also makes some academic sense that i could get into later potentially

however, what's funnier to me about that scene is that marly is played by THE CURRENT EARL OF PORTLAND?? BENTINCK'S DESCENDANT. my boy is rolling in his fucking grave on god

love that guy tho bc he called bentinck too dull to be gay

anyway, on the list of marlys that we have in media he's fine appearance-wise, i just cannot take him seriously akjajjkasjk

[acrossthewavesoftime]

My textbook knows how I like Ireland:

[scotianostra]

The 1st of May 1690 saw Battle of the Haughs of Cromdale.

Jacobite Clansmen  were defeated by Government Forces under Sir Thomas Livingstone. Despite being a relatively minor encounter, this battle marked the effective end of this Jacobite rising.

By this point the Jacobites were led by Sir Ewen Cameron, who supported King James. The Jacobites requested aid from King James who was engaged in resisting a threatened invasion of Ireland. He sent arms, ammunition and provisions but also a few Irish officers including Major-General Thomas Buchan, who James instructed would led the Jacobite forces.

At a meeting at Keppoch of the Jacobite Clans in support of King James agreed to continue with the war but only after the spring. In the meantime Major-General Thomas Buchan and 1,200 infantry would attempt to weaken the British Government forces.

Major-General Thomas Buchan decided to march down through Strathspey in order to try to gain support from clansmen within the Duke of Gordon’s country in Moray. A number of his men deserted reducing his men to 800. A number of his Scottish officers advised him to not advance past Culnakill, however Buchan ordered his men to march down the Spey as far as Cromdale, where he encamped on the last day of April.

British Government forces and Clans in support of them, included a 600 strong contingent from Clan Grant, met the Jacobite forces at Cromdale. They were led by Sir Thomas Livingston who commanded a garrison at Inverness. As the British Government forces approached, the Jacobites made a brief stand, but on realising they were outnumbered they retreated. A mist came down from the hillside, which allowed most to make their escape resulting in 400 casualties.

James Hogg wrote about the battle in his “Jacobite Reliques” it went….

The loyal Stuarts, with Montrose, So boldly set upon their foes, And brought them down with Highland blows Upon the Haughs of Cromdale. Of twenty-thousand Cromwell’s men, a thousand fled to Aberdeen, The rest of them lie on the plain, They’re on the Haughs of Cromdale.

Of twenty-thousand of Cromwell’s men,

a-thousand fled to Aberdeen, The rest of them lie on the plain, They’re on the Haughs of Cromdale.

I’m not sure what Hogg was on when he wrote this as Montrose was long dead, having been hung in  Edinburgh in May 1650, Cromwell also died in 1658.  That aside it is a cracking song, if historically incorrect. Roy Williamson of the Corries tries to explain this before their rendition

[connorphilpphotography]

The Jacobite, Glenfinnan Viaduct

[the--highlanders]

obviously there's a lot to be said for the way that jamie holds onto his culture and beliefs and specifically his jacobitism throughout his travels. he defines himself as scottish and values scottishness in a way which might be anachronistically nationalistic for someone from his time but which isn't entirely out of line with the sort of pseudo-nationalism that crops up in gaelic jacobitism. in the ice warriors, he immediately identifies with storr's description of himself as a 'loyalist', whatever he took that to mean. in the dominators, he likens himself and cully fighting the quarks to his family fighting redcoats, and in the war games him working together with a redcoat is a massive point of character development. he never stops being incredibly informed by his life experience, by the conflict he's seen and by the ways it has affected his people

but at the same time, he's very much cut adrift from the movement he was apart of. he's two years younger than prince charles, born into a family with close social ties to a landowner who's committed enough to the jacobite cause that both he and his son are fighting for them - colin maclaren is hedging no bets and not even bothering to play both sides. jamie must have lived and breathed this whole belief system from the day he was born. he's never known a world without the expectation that there'll be a war - as soon as the prince is old enough, as soon as they're ready - or without the knowledge that he'll risk his life for it. at the point of the highlanders, he's spent twenty-two years immersed in one side of an incredibly polarised belief system that's dictated his views on religion, transfer of power, social hierarchies, the role his country and his culture should play in the world. it's all-pervasive and inescapable.

and yet basically the first thing we hear from him is that prince charles was first to abandon them, when the tides turned. it's not the truth of the matter, whether or not he knows it, and he's far from the only one to think this, at the time. but he believes it enough that he's willing to fight with alexander - his social superior, the son of his landlord and employer - rather than back down or stay quiet. he never fully, openly turns away from the cause, and he's certainly still loyal to his laird and to the men he's fought with - but you get the sense that something's broken in his belief system. the supposedly predestined jacobite victory hasn't come about, and that's shaken him. when he gets out of that environment entirely and is travelling with the doctor, he'll reference his people, his culture, the conflict he was a part of - but he never mentions who he was fighting for. the moment when he works with the redcoat is a moment of character development not because he's working with someone who fought for a different monarch, but because he's working with someone who has done harm to his people. the direct, personal implications of that conflict are there, but all the broader beliefs and context aren't.

which is interesting to line up against the doctor, at this point. because they're in the same place here, in a way. fresh off his first regeneration, the doctor has the time machine, and the knowledge, and the gallifreyan belief that he knows best. he's carried that with him. but he's growing closer to his human companions than maybe ever before, letting them trust him and know him and become like family. he listens to and respects jamie's beliefs in the moonbase, even knowing that the phantom piper isn't real, because the fact that it's important to jamie is more valuable than him being objectively right. he takes an open, blatant moral stance against evil and injustice, and does it again, and again, until ultimately it costs him his life and his companions. the doctor at this point is more adrift than he ever has been - one step further removed from the beliefs and systems of gallifrey, but still crystallising his own beliefs and the values that will carry him through the rest of his regenerations.

so he picks up jamie, more by accident than anything, and finds in him - a kindred spirit? someone who's certain in all the ways he's not, and faltering in all the places he isn't? someone who needs a cause to fight for, certainly, and who can give him the moral and emotional direction he's seeking. someone who gets what it's like to look at the world you've been raised in and see it shatter, until you can't believe in it the way you once did. someone who's been through all that, and who can answer the question of /what's next/ beside him.

[bantarleton]

An absolutely brilliant reenactment of the 23rd Foot - Royal Welsh Fusiliers - during the 1745 Jacobite Rising/War of the Austrian Succession.

[vox-anglosphere]

All aboard for Britain's most scenic journey on the West Highland line