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The raising of the Jacobite standard at Glenfinnan
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On 19 August 1745, the Jacobite standard was raised at Glenfinnan at the head of Loch Shiel in Lochaber, marking the beginning of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. He had come with just seven followers in a bid to raise the Jacobite clans in a rebellion against the Hanoverian King George II and win the throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart, son of the deposed King James VII and II. Charles made a short speech and proclaimed his father James Francis Edward Stuart as King James VIII and III, marking the beginning of the Jacobite Rising of 1745.