Abergeldie Castle (9)
During the course of the first Jacobite rising in 1689–90, the castle was besieged by Jacobite forces, however following the defeat of General Buchan's Jacobite forces by Sir Thomas Livingstone at Cromdale in May 1690, General Hugh Mackay of Scourie marched with some cavalry and 1,400 Williamite Dutch infantry and lifted the siege.

It figured again in the 1715 Jacobite Rising, being garrisoned by government troops (having then only recently been renovated by Rachel Gordon and her husband, Captain Charles Gordon.  And in the short 1719 Rising, it was briefly garrisoned by Spanish troops.
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