The Confederates send around fifteen hundred men …
Years: 1644 - 1644
The Confederates send around fifteen hundred men under Alasdair MacColla to Scotland in 1644 to support the royalists there under James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, against the Covenanters, sparking a Civil War—their only intervention on the Royalist side in the civil wars in Britain.
William Dobson: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (c. 1644), National Portrait Gallery, London
Locations
People
Groups
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Scotland, Kingdom of
- Anglicans (Episcopal Church of England)
- Ireland, (English) Kingdom of
- Presbyterians
- England, (Stuart) Kingdom of
- Confederate Ireland (Irish Catholic Confederation [Confederation of Kilkenny])
Topics
- Three Kingdoms, Wars of the
- Irish Rebellion, Great
- Irish Confederate Wars
- English Civil War, First, or Great
- Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
