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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Jacobites"”.
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The reading of Newton in the early eighteenth century : Tories and Newtonianism
… natural philosophy could be put. Tories and Jacobites frequently used Newton's science in political and religious debate to defend Tory High-Anglicanism and Scottish Episcopalianism, in spite of the numerous examples of Tory High-Church natural philosophers who saw Newton and his followers as …
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The Highland Charge and the Jacobite Rebellions
… of the deposed House of Stuart, known as Jacobites and composed largely of Highland Scots, staged periodic rebellions against the new Hanoverian rulers in London. During this period, the Highlanders of Scotland experienced a period of military triumph unlike any other in their history. …
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Information and French Support for Jacobite Ireland, 1689-1691
… to better understand French interaction with Jacobites in Ireland, but is also applicable in a wider context, that of the use of intelligence in the conflict between France and the new Williamite regime in the Three Kingdoms in the early period of the Nine Years War.<br/>
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Political correspondence relating to Kingston-upon-Hull, 1678-1835
… elections were common after 1796. Threats from Jacobites and American privateers, with the possibility of a French invasion, caused local political squabbles, but the French danger may have helped prevent the spread of revolutionary societies and Radicalism was really born in Hull in 1818 with …
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Pirates in the Age of Projects, 1688-1707
This dissertation retells the history of pirates in the anglophone world, 1688-1707. It argues that the appellation “pirate” became applied to some within global seafaring communities as part of a contest among people of middling means to define the purpose and organisation of overseas expansion. …