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Related People William III • Frederick Herman, duke of Schomberg • Charles Edward, the Young Pretender • James Fitzjames, duke of Berwick-upon-Tweed • John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st viscount of Dundee • Godard van Reede, 1st earl of Athlone • Richard Talbot, earl of Tyrconnell • Ewen Cameron • Patrick Sarsfield • Flora Macdonald • Thomas Forster • Lord George Murray • Henry Saint John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke • Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat • James Edward, the Old Pretender

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