2-648-993 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Earl of Mar's Council of War', November 1715, (c1880). John Erskine, Earl of Mar (1675-May 1732) was a Scottish Jacobite who when deprived of office by the new king, George I of Great Britain in 1714, Mar raised the standard of rebellion against the Hanoverians; at the battle of Sheriffmuir in November 1715. Mar's forces outnumbered those of his opponent, but victory eluded him. From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. I, by James Grant. [Cassell Petter & Galpin, London, Paris & New York, c1880]