The Battle of Glen Shiel

King Philip of Spain’s claim to the French throne set off the War of the Quadruple Alliance in 1714, dragging Britain in by threatening the Mediterranean. He attempted to replace George I with James Stuart, the ‘Old Pretender’, but Philip’s armada went astray in a storm, and a small Jacobite-Spanish force was defeated at Glen Shiel in the Scottish Highlands.

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