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Farquharsons and were
His estates were forfeit, and passed to the Farquharsons of Auchendryne.
The Farquharsons were staunch supporters of the House of Stuart and in 1689, John Farquharson of Inverey declared for John Graham of Claverhouse, Bonnie Dundee.
In the front line, from right to left were the MacDonalds, Camerons, Frasers, MacPhersons, Mackintoshes, Mackenzies, Farquharsons and Stewarts of Appin.

Farquharsons and Jacobite
Auchindryne ( to use the spelling by Wyness ) from ach ' an droighinn ( field of the thorn ) belonged to a branch of the Farquharsons until it was forfeited in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745.

Farquharsons and was
The present Braemar Castle was constructed in 1628 by John Erskine, 18th Earl of Mar as a hunting lodge and to counter the rising power of the Farquharsons, replacing an older building, which was the successor of nearby Kindrochit Castle, which dates from as the 11th century AD.
After the Rising of 1745, Aberarder was owned by the Farquharsons of Invercauld.

Farquharsons and .
Jon Erskine, who styled himself Earl of Mar, built Braemar Castle in 1628 to defend himself against the claims of the Farquharsons.
The castle passed into the hands of the Farquharsons and remains the clan seat to this day.

were and Jacobite
Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).
The Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the " Bonnie Prince Charlie " of legend, were defeated at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
After the battle of Culloden the leaders were declared to be traitors, with Jacobite officers executed and many of the rebel soldiers shipped to the colonies as indentured servants.
In his Essay Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities, written just after the Jacobite rising of 1745 he described how the politics of Scotland were not based on loyalty to Kings or Queens as Jacobites had said but on royal land grants given in return for loyalty.
The early years of the unified kingdom of Great Britain were marked by Jacobite risings which ended with defeat for the Stuart cause at Culloden in 1746.
The French scheme to invade Britain was arranged in combination with the Jacobite leaders, and soldiers were to be transported from Dunkirk.
After the Jacobite army was defeated at Culloden ( 1746 ), the Murrays were put under house arrest, and William was imprisoned in the Tower.
In 1745, the year of the Jacobite rebellion, competing productions were staged by Colley Cibber at Covent Garden and David Garrick at Drury Lane.
On top of that, the Jacobite infantry who actually had firearms were all equipped with the obsolete matchlock musket.
At the main ford near Oldbridge, William's infantry led by the elite Dutch Blue Guards forced their way across the river, using their superior firepower to slowly drive back the enemy foot-soldiers, but were pinned down when the Jacobite cavalry counter-attacked.
The Williamites were not able to resume their advance until their own horsemen managed to cross the river and, after being badly mauled, managed to hold off the Jacobite cavalry until they retired and regrouped at Donore, where they once again put up stiff resistance before retiring.
The Jacobite army abandoned the city and marched to Limerick, behind the River Shannon, where they were unsuccessfully besieged.
These Jacobite baronetcies were never accepted by the English Crown, have all disappeared and should properly be excluded from the 3, 482, making the effective number of creations 3, 457.
In 1746, Francis Towneley and eight men who had taken part in the Jacobite Rising were hanged, drawn and quartered at Kennington Common.
His studies were interrupted by the arrival of Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Highlanders, who occupied Edinburgh during the 1745 Jacobite rising.
William's position as Master Mason to the Board of Ordnance also began to generate much work, as the Highlands were fortified following the failed Jacobite revolt.
The gardens at Chiswick were filled with fabriques ( garden buildings ) which illustrated Lord Burlington's knowledge of Roman, Greek, Egyptian and Renaissance architecture, and statues and architecture which expressed his Whig ( and very possibly Jacobite ) ideals.
The island was controlled by the Hanoverian government using a local militia, but the MacDonalds were secretly sympathetic with the Jacobite cause.
Cumberland ordered his troops to show no quarter against any remaining Jacobite rebels ( French Army personnel, including those who were British-or Irish-born, were treated as legitimate combatants ).
Forays were made before the Battle of Culloden and on the day before the battle, 15 April 1746, about 200 of the McFarquhar's Jacobite force were ambushed by pro-government Scots at the Battle of Littleferry near Golspie.
It is 30 m high and was built to Flitcroft's design in 1747 – 48 to commemorate the defeat of the Jacobite rebellion, in which Lord Malton and his surviving son took part ; his defensive efforts for the Hanoverian Whig establishment were rewarded with the Lord Lieutenancy of Yorkshire and the title Marquess of Rockingham: thus the monument indirectly reflects the greater glory of the family.
After the Revolution of 1688 which overthrew James II, there were Jacobite risings in the British Isles ; some Riponmen were jailed in February 1764 upon " suspicion of corresponding with Prince Charles Edward Stuart ".

were and sympathisers
Following the defeat of the Independent State of Croatia at the end of the war, a large number of Ustaše, and civilians supporting them ( ranging from sympathisers, young conscripts, anti-communists, and ordinary serfs who were allegedly motivated by Partisan crimes ) attempted to flee in the direction of Austria hoping to surrender to British forces and to be given refuge.
After the forcible dissolution of the Rump Parliament by Oliver Cromwell, the Grandees of the Army Council of Officers were reluctant to authorise free elections because they were aware that the members returned by the traditional constituency would return Presbyterians and Royalists as well as their own sympathisers.
Thanks to funds raised by Golda Meir from sympathisers in the United States, and Stalin's decision to support the Zionist cause, the Jewish representatives of Palestine were able to sign very important armament contracts in the East.
Also Kolbin prepared to unleash a purge within the Communist Youth League against any sympathisers, these moves were halted by Moscow.
In the process of these operations, there were allegations in 2001 that the army has tortured people suspected of being UNITA sympathisers.
Before, during, and after World War II, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were suspected by many in government and society of being Nazi sympathisers.
The nominations for party Presidential candidates were held on the 28th August, 2006, amid reports of the Government intimidating and unfairly detaining Opposition members and sympathisers, and of using the machineries of state ( including the national media arm of the Government, GRTS ), to gain an unfair advantage during political campaigns.
In Ronda, some 500 people, allegedly fascist sympathisers, were thrown into the surrounding gorge by a mob from a house that faced onto the cliffside.
This increased the number of communist sympathisers who were placed inside the hamlets and given identification cards.
Whenever it claimed responsibility for its attacks, the UVF usually claimed that those targeted were IRA members or IRA sympathisers.
At this time New Recruits Like Inchicore Republican John McGrath Joined Fianna Eireann, He would go on to be a high Ranking Member of Fianna Eireann. There was no one place that Na Fianna could claim as their Headquarters, and they depended on the use of old buildings that were in Republican ownership, or owned by Republican sympathisers.
Some balaclava-wearing sympathisers of Pussy Riot were arrested in Marseille, France in August 2012 for being in breach of the French ban on face covering.
:… We could still hear scattered rifle fire and the sound of naval guns, and the Bolshevik sympathisers were sniping from the rooftops.
Meanwhile, spurred by their experiences of the Napoleonic Wars, and realising many of the harsh indignities through which the peasant soldiers were forced, Decembrist officers and sympathisers displayed their contempt for the ancien régime by rejecting court lifestyle, wearing their cavalry swords at balls ( indicating their unwillingness to dance ), and committing themselves to academic study.
Provence and Brittany which were known to contain many royalist sympathisers did not rise in open revolt, but La Vendée did.
After the rebellion failed, the leaders were executed and a purge of Catholic sympathisers in the priesthood carried out.
They were particularly active in supporting the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, and around twenty-five members and sympathisers ( including George Orwell ) went to Spain to assist the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) as part of an ILP Contingent of volunteers.
In the camps, which were kept secret to the Swedish public, people from various ethnic minorities as well as political dissidents were interned, particularly Communists and Soviet Union sympathisers.
For instance, German sympathisers in the Sudetenland privately overprinted Czechoslovakian stamps with swastikas before the annexation, and in Italy, after the fall of Mussolini and his establishment of the Italian Social Republic, stamps of the King were overprinted with fasces by Fascist sympathizers.
While Communist sympathisers were highly present among their ranks ( which explains their history of engagement in the Résistance, and according to some due to a desire to practice entryism ), a purge limited their number after the French Communist Party ( PCF ) took on the role of opposition to postwar governments – following a demonstration in Marseille ( 12 November 1947 ) called by the CGT union and the PCF that the CRS, a majority of whom were Communists, refused to repress, several companies were dissolved and the CRS were reorganised so as to remove Communist influence among their ranks.

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