Anglo-Scottish Union and the War of the Spanish Succession
Macinnes, Allan; Mulligan, William and Simms, Brendan, eds. (2010) Anglo-Scottish Union and the War of the Spanish Succession. In: The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660-2000. Palgrave, pp. 49-64. ISBN 9780230574724
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The Scottish Act of Security of 1703-4 allowed for the Scottish Parliament to choose a different monarch to succeed to the Scottish crown from that of England, if it so wished. This meant that the Act allowed for the Scottish Parliament to initiate an independent foreign policy during an era of major European warfare, the War of the Spanish Succession. From the English political perspective, this opened up the possibility of the restoration of a Jacobite on the Scottish throne and a Franco-Scottish military rapprochement. Such an alignment could result in attacks from Scotland, France and Ireland. Hence the Scottish 'problem' had to be neutralised and the Hanoverian Succession secured.
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 35710 Dates: DateEvent20 October 2010PublishedSubjects: History General and Old World > Great Britain > Scotland Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > History Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 09 Nov 2011 10:37 Last modified: 18 Apr 2024 14:02 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/35710