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Dundee, John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount[klav´urus, dundE´] Pronunciation Key, 1649?–1689, Scottish soldier, known as Bonnie Dundee.
He was second in command of the Scottish force vainly sent to help James II repel William of Orange in 1688, and James made him Viscount Dundee.
After James's flight, Dundee raised forces in Scotland to help restore him, but was killed in his hour of victory at Killiecrankie.
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John Comyn and Robert the Bruce were appointed in his place, the latter the grandson of a failed claimant to the throne during Edward's arbitration in 1292.
In 1645, James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose attempted to raise the Highlands for the King.
An initial Jacobite rising under John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee (Bonnie Dundee) defeated William's forces at the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689, but Dundee was slain in the fighting, and the leaderless army was soon defeated at the Battle of Dunkeld.
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A disciple of John Calvin, Knox, waged fierce battles with the forces of Catholic orthodoxy and eventually converted thecountry to Presbyterianism, a spartan reformulation of Christianity.
Despite the Jacobite forces' defeat of William's forces at the Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689, the uprising did not achieveits objective owing to the death at the battle of its leader (and main driving force), John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee.
John MacLean became a key political figurein Red Clydeside and on Bloody Friday January 31st 1919, the BritishGovernment was so fearful of a revolutionary uprising in Glasgow that tanks and soldiers were stationed in George Square.
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 John Graham, of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, killed, dies July 27 in History
John Graham, of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, killed, dies July 27 in History
John Graham, of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, killed, dies
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