Jacobite rising of 1689 been enthusiastic and supported the Revolution, but soon became disenchanted with the new regime. This later led to many breakaway movements in the Church of Scotland. The first major crisis to hit the reign of William III was the Massacre of Glencoe in 1692, where unarmed civilians of the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were massacred by government troops, because their chief was late in signing an oath of allegiance to William, having been prevented from doing so on time because of severe weather conditions in the mountains that he had to cross. Jacobite rising of 1689 The Jacobite rising of
William Robertson Coe II William Robertson Coe II William Robertson Coe II (28 November 1926 – 23 November 2009) was an American academic, archaeologist and Mayanist scholar, renowned for his extensive field work and publications on pre-Columbian Maya civilization sites. He is best known for his decades of work and investigations at Tikal, the major site in the Petén Basin region of modern-day Guatemala and one of the largest and most dominant Maya sites of the Classic period. Coe led the excavation and investigation project at Tikal during the 1960s, and was responsible for coordinating much of the site's restoration work and compiling the