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I’m afraid this is not really true 
. Opposition did not fade away after Killiecrankie, the Highland War went on for another two years with two more pitched battles and many skirmishes that have been overlooked. All too often we view ‘1689’ with hindsight.
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. Opposition did not fade away after Killiecrankie, the Highland War went on for another two years with two more pitched battles and many skirmishes that have been overlooked. All too often we view ‘1689’ with hindsight.#twitterstorians https://twitter.com/jacobitesedu/status/1287632560806338561
Whilst Dundee was a very important figure in 1689, and his death was a devastating loss, the importance ascribed to him is also a wee bit inflated. It’s romantic to think the Jacobites thought all was lost when he died.
They didn’t, they kept fighting and resisting til late 1691
They didn’t, they kept fighting and resisting til late 1691
But I can see why it’s viewed this way as a lot of Jacobite memory goes back to view it this way. Memoirists like Balcarres and poets like John MacDonald of Keppoch ascribe Dundee this mythological prowess.
This conveniently allows them to downplay the errors they made post-1689
This conveniently allows them to downplay the errors they made post-1689
Also it’s not super sexy to write an account of the slow grinding war that by the end was becoming more of a policing action
Only Mackay really writes about things like the Fort William Expedition in 1690 even he leaves out the sieges of hold outs in 1691 bc he was away by then
Only Mackay really writes about things like the Fort William Expedition in 1690 even he leaves out the sieges of hold outs in 1691 bc he was away by then
