The Whiggamore Raid (or "March of the whiggamores") was a march on Edinburgh by supporters of the Kirk faction of the Covenanters to take power from the Engagers whose army had recently been defeated by the English New Model Army at the Battle of Preston (1648).[1]
Whiggamores (later shortened to Whigs) became a nickname for the Kirk party who were against the Engagement with King Charles I.[1]
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- ^ a b Herman, Arthur (2001). How the Scots invented the Modern World: the true story of how western Europe's poorest nation created our world & everything in it. New York: Crown Pub, p.46. ISBN 0-609-60635-2.
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