Jacobite risins

Portrait o Keeng James II bi Sir Godfrey Kneller

The Jacobite risins (or Jacobite rebellions) war a series o uprisins, rebellions, an wars in Great Breetain an Ireland occurrin atween 1688 an 1746. The uprisins haed the aim o returnin James VII o Scotland an II o Ingland, the last Catholic Breetish monarch, an later his descendants o the Hoose o Stuart, tae the throne o Great Breetain efter thay haed been deposed bi Pairlament during the Glorious Revolution. The series o conflicts taks its name Jacobitism, frae Jacobus, the Laitin form o James.