End of Siege of Inverness

Date: February 21, 1746 • Location: Inverness, United Kingdom

Jacobite rising of 1745: The siege of Inverness ended with British forces surrendering to the Jacobite army.

The Jacobite rising of 1745 was an attempt to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart. The last in a series of Jacobite risings that began in March 1689, it proved to be the end of Jacobitism as a major factor in British politics.