
The Jacobites: everything you wanted to know
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The Jacobites and the Unnatural Are the Natural Rebels
Women played a very central role in the jacobite cause, it would be fair to say. Anne mackintosh raised a regiment of round about three or 400 men and became its notional commander. They were also widely used in jacobITE espionage. The fact that jacobites weredetaching women from their true role in society was a small, but definitely present part of anti jacobitic propaganda.
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