Jacobite
JacobiteA Scottish or English supporter of the exiled royal house of Stuart . The Jacobites took their name from Jacobus, the Latin name for James II , who had been deprived of his throne in 1688 . Their strength lay among the Highland clans of Scotland, whose loyalty was personal; the weakness of Jacobitism was that it failed to win over the Tories in England, who might have made it a more powerful and dangerous movement. The Jacobites were politically important between 1688 and 1745 . The Fifteen and the Forty‐Five were their major rebellions, but neither succeeded and after 1745 , with the government's suppression of the clans, Jacobitism ceased to have a firm political base.
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