Battle of Glen Shiel

Battle of Glen Shiel
Part of the Jacobite rising of 1719
The Battle of Glenshiel 1719, Peter Tillemans
Date 10 June 1719 Location Glen Shiel, Scotland, Great Britain 57°9′59″N 5°19′2″W / 57.16639°N 5.31722°W / 57.16639; -5.31722 Result Government victory
Belligerents
British government	Jacobites Spain
Commanders and leaders
Joseph Wightman	William Murray James Keith Cameron of Lochiel Nicolás Bolaño
Strength
c. 1,100	1,440
Casualties and losses
141 killed and wounded	c. 100 killed and wounded[1]
Registered battlefield
Designated	21 March 2011
Reference no.	BTL10
class=notpageimage| Location within Scotland

The Battle of Glen Shiel ^[a] took place on 10 June 1719 in the Scottish Highlands, during the Jacobite rising of 1719. A Jacobite army composed of Highland levies and Spanish marines was defeated by British government troops.

The Rising was backed by Spain, then engaged in the 1718–1720 War of the Quadruple Alliance with Britain. Originally intended to support a landing in south-west England, which was cancelled several weeks earlier, its failure was seen as having fatally damaged the Jacobite cause.

The battlefield is now included in the Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland, and protected by Historic Scotland.^[1]

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