Highlands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...caused, initially, by the failure of the Jacobite rebellions. Crofting, fishing, and...at the areas continued interest in the Jacobites the Highlands had furnished the backbone of the Jacobite uprisings of 1715 and 1745. The British...