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The Jacobite risings were not 'Scotland' against any 'English establishment'. 
They were confrontations between Britain-wide political factions which people and groups freely shifted between as the politics of patronage ran out and the politics of violence took over. They focused on Scotland because a) it is true that the Highlands are a good place to raise an army quickly and cheaply thanks to military feudalism (it wasn't just Jacobites: the Whigs landed in Argyll in 1685 for the same reason) and b) the Scottish Tories were more in the grip of Jacobitism because Scotland's Tory-Episcopalian interest had been cast out into the wilderness by the Presbyterian Whigs. But the French factored Jacobitism into their strategy for invading England in 1744.
The Scots Whig establishment were the fiercest opponents of Jacobitism and conversely the '15, which might actually have succeeded, might have done so precisely because England teetered on the edge of civil war itself. There were plenty of English Jacobites. The reason a person from Tyneside is called a Geordie is because Newcastle - tied to Whiggish commercial interests, one would imagine - was 'for Geordie' amidst a sea of quiet Jacobitism.
And of course a great many of the 'redcoat lads' were themselves Scots, and some of them Highlanders (most Highland troops were in Flanders in '45, but their was a company of Black Watch at Culloden). And the Campbells and Cameronians (nothing to do with the Camerons, because yeah Scottish history
) were perfectly willing to resist the Jacobites with arms.
They were confrontations between Britain-wide political factions which people and groups freely shifted between as the politics of patronage ran out and the politics of violence took over. They focused on Scotland because a) it is true that the Highlands are a good place to raise an army quickly and cheaply thanks to military feudalism (it wasn't just Jacobites: the Whigs landed in Argyll in 1685 for the same reason) and b) the Scottish Tories were more in the grip of Jacobitism because Scotland's Tory-Episcopalian interest had been cast out into the wilderness by the Presbyterian Whigs. But the French factored Jacobitism into their strategy for invading England in 1744.
The Scots Whig establishment were the fiercest opponents of Jacobitism and conversely the '15, which might actually have succeeded, might have done so precisely because England teetered on the edge of civil war itself. There were plenty of English Jacobites. The reason a person from Tyneside is called a Geordie is because Newcastle - tied to Whiggish commercial interests, one would imagine - was 'for Geordie' amidst a sea of quiet Jacobitism.
And of course a great many of the 'redcoat lads' were themselves Scots, and some of them Highlanders (most Highland troops were in Flanders in '45, but their was a company of Black Watch at Culloden). And the Campbells and Cameronians (nothing to do with the Camerons, because yeah Scottish history
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