Spring Drive Across Sheriffmuir Battlefield To Greenloaning Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, on the single track road across Sheriffmuir Battlefield on ancestry visit to Greenloaning, Perthshire. The Battle of Sheriffmuir, Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Sliabh an t-Siorraim, was an engagement in 1715 at the height of the Jacobite rising in England and Scotland. John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar, standard bearer for the Jacobite cause in Scotland, mustered Highland chiefs, and on 6 September declared James Francis Edward Stuart as King of Scots. With an army of about 12,000 men Mar proceeded to take Perth, and commanded much of the northern Highlands. Following unsuccessful skirmishes against John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, who was based at Stirling, Mar was eventually persuaded to lead his full army south, on 10 November. Spies informed Argyll of Mar's actions, and he moved his army of about 4,000 to Sheriffmuir, near Dunblane. The two armies met on the battlefield on 13 November 1715. The battle was inconclusive, with both sides claiming victory. Greenloaning is one mile south of Braco and five miles north of Dunblane.

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