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* [[The Butcher]]: General Cumberland. Well earned.
* [[The Clan]]: The Highland Clans, on both sides of the conflict.
* [[Feuding Families]]: The Royal Houses of Hanover and Stuart. Also the more local feuds often overlapped, particularly in the Highlands, where the conflict was often superimposed onto old clan rivalries, most notoriously that of the Campbells and
* [[Fighting For a Homeland]]: After the victories of William of Orange at the Boyne, Aughrim, and Limerick, there had a massive exodus of Irish supporters of King James II called "the Flight of the Wild Geese". They spent years in the service of the French and Spanish armies, preferring to fight for their fellow Catholics rather than stay in a foreign-occupied Ireland. Young men from Ireland and Scotland continued to enter the French service for decades, and during the Hanover-Stuart Wars, many of them ''returned'' with "Bonnie Prince Charlie" to try and reclaim his throne for him.
* [[Good Old Ways]]: Romantic Scots sometimes regard the Highland clan system, suppressed in reaction to the wars, as such.
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