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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Michael Fry

Why the death of ‘Bonnie Dundee’ was a fatal blow for the Jacobites

A crowd gathers to cheer the Scottish hero John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee (c.1649 - 1689), on the cover for the 'Bonnie Dundee Quadrille' by Charles D'Albert.

SCOTS have long been known as a martial race, with a reputation that cuts both ways. On the one hand the soldier has been feared for his ferocity and, on the other, admired for his generosity.

An example is a man who stands at the roots of the Jacobite movement, born about 1650 as plain John Graham, who came from a landed family of Claverhouse in Angus.

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