### French Fleet Anchors Near Fife **Date**: March 25, 1708 • **Location**: Crail, United Kingdom Jacobite risings: A French fleet anchored near Fife Ness as part of a planned French invasion of Britain. Jacobitism was the name for a political movement active from 1688 to the end of the 18th century. Its primary objective was the restoration of the exiled House of Stuart to the British throne. It was strongest in Ireland, the Western Scottish Highlands, Perthshire, Aberdeenshire, Wales, and Northern England.

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