15 February 1708: The Dutch government sent a message to the British government warning them about an imminent French invasion aimed at putting James Francis Edward Stuart on the British throne. In October 1707, France had advised the Scottish Jacobites to prepare for a rising in the spring of 1708.
15 February 1716: The last remnants of the Earl of Mar’s Jacobite army dispersed at Ruthven. Mar and James Francis Edward Stuart had departed Scotland for France on 4 February, and the main Jacobite army had disbanded at Aberdeen on 7 February.
15 February 1744: The day after the British government was informed of an imminent French invasion, King George II sent a message to both Houses of Parliament informing them that intelligence had been received indicating that Charles Edward Stuart was in France and that preparations were underway for an invasion of Britain.
15 February 1746: While on a flying visit to Edinburgh to sort out supplies of bread for the government army’s advance from Perth to Aberdeen, the Duke of Cumberland ordered the Hessian auxiliary troops under Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel to move to Perth and Stirling to secure his lines of communication and also to prevent a Jacobite breakout from Atholl into the lowlands.
