...are ferried across the Firth of Forth …
Years: 1715 - 1715
October
...are ferried across the Firth of Forth from Burntisland to East Lothian.
Here they are diverted into an attack on an undefended Edinburgh, but having seized Leith citadel, they are chased away by the arrival of Argyll's forces.
Locations
People
- George I of Great Britain
- James Francis Edward Stuart
- John Erskine, 22nd and de jure 6th Earl of Mar
