Exploring the 1715 Jacobite Rising Battle of Sheriffmuir
On the 13th November in the year 1715 a battle took place on Sheriffmuir at Dunblane. This was between the Jacobite soldiers led by John Erskine, the 6th Earl of Mar, and the Hanoverian Government army led by John Campbell, the 2nd Duke of Argyll. The battle was chaotic and inconclusive. The right wing of Argyll’s army attacked, pushing back the Jacobites on that side. But Jacobites on the other wing attacked the left wing of Argyll’s army and overwhelmed them. Both sides claimed victory, but strategically, Argyll succeeded in stopping the Jacobites from reaching Stirling or Edinburgh. Although the battle lacked a decisive winner, it effectively ended the 1715 Jacobite rising.
This resource makes reference to books in Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library ("The Battle of Sheriffmuir" by John E Shearer, published in 1898, and "Dunblane traditions; being a series of warlike and legendary narratives, biographical sketches of eccentric characters, &c" by John Monteith, published in 1887) as well as to artefacts from the Battle of Sheriffmuir held in Dunblane Museum next to the Leighton Library. It provides learning activities to explore the lead up to the Battle of Sheriffmuir, the battle itself, and its aftermath, making use of noted and imagined accounts of characters involved in the Battle of Sheriffmuir.