Whiggamore Raid
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The Whiggamore Raid (or "March of the whiggamores") was a march on Edinburgh by supporters of the Kirk faction of the Covenanters to take power from the Engagers who's army had recently been defeated by the English New Model Army at the Battle of Preston (1648).[1]
Whiggamores (later shortened to Wigs) became a nickname for the Kirk party who were against the Engagement with King Charles I[1]
[edit] See also
- Battle of Mauchline Muir
- Kirk Party
- British Whig Party
- Radical Whigs
- Patriot Whigs or Patriot Party
- Liberal Party (UK)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Herman, Arthur (2001). How the Scots invented the Modern World: the true story of how western Europe's poorest nation created our world & everything in it. New York: Crown Pub, p.46. ISBN 0-609-60635-2.
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