Battle of Glen Shiel 1719
Outline: officially registered battlefield boundary. Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Date | 10 June 1719 | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1719 | Wikidata P585 (point in time) |
| Era | Early modern (1500–1799) | derived from year |
| Location | Scotland | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | Europe | Natural Earth |
| War / conflict | Jacobite rising of 1719 | Wikidata P361 |
| Participants | Jacobitism, Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of Spain | Wikidata P710 |
| Coordinates | 57.1664, -5.3172 | Wikidata P625 |
| Official record | HES Inventory BTL10 | OGL v3 |
| Registered area | 615.2 ha | OGL v3 |
About the battle
The Battle of Glen Shiel, 10 June 1719, was the decisive military engagement of the Jacobite rising of 1719. Fought near Glen Shiel in the Scottish Highlands, a Jacobite army composed of Highland levies and Spanish marines was defeated by British government troops.
The rebellion was backed by Spain, then engaged in the 1718–1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance with Britain. Originally intended only as a diversion for a landing in south-west England which was cancelled several weeks earlier, its failure was seen as having fatally damaged the Jacobite cause.
The battlefield is now included in the Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland, and protected by Historic Scotland.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article Battle of Glen Shiel (revision 1375543908), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; formatting and citations removed. No text added.
Battlefield boundary: contains Historic Environment Scotland and OS data © Historic Environment Scotland and Crown Copyright and database right 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. See also this battlefield on Battlefields of Britain.
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